"That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.'"

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Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

Gordon Quinn

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Filmmaking Quotes

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”
“There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.”
“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
“What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.”

Source : "Taking an open-minded approach". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.
“Attention is the opium of the people”
“"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.”
“Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]”
“Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.”

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