"Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development, grammar, and all these thing, but then you use it instinctively. I ask myself this question all the time. I have no solid theory, I just do what I feel is right."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Hany Abu-Assad

#Character Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.”
“If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.”
“Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.”
“In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.”
“The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.”
“When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.”
“Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.”

Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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