"Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film."

-- Jean Rouch

#Cinema Quotes #Film Quotes

“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.”
“To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.”

Source : Ted Nugent (2000). “God, guns, and rock 'n' roll”, Regnery Press
“A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that itâ€™s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, youâ€™ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place.”
“I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just don't like it." And it sits there. It can be awkward, but a real musician understands that you're not always going to make what you want it to be. You can't just polish everything into perfection.”
“People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires...and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.”
“People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.”
“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”
“Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.”

Source : Peter Deunov (2004). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.110, Health Communications, Inc.

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