"I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#Country Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Layers Quotes

“I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“conferences with open attendance are very important for the stimulation of young people or other people who are new in the field. ... The field of high-energy physics is, as you know, very strongly in the hands of a clique and it is hard for an outsider to enter.”

Source : "Drawing theories apart: the dispersion of Feynman diagrams in postwar physics" by David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, (p. 336), 2005.
“Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.”
“The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.”

Source : Susan Choi (2014). “American Woman: A Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins
“If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”
“Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.”
“You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.”
“It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.”

Source : "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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