"Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema."

-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Cinema Quotes #Form Quotes #Turns Quotes

“Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”
“Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.”
“I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.”
“IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.”

Source : Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.110, Shambhala Publications
“Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.”
“As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea that they have the key to the Absolute, and that nothing will do for Mr. Average Citizen but to stuff himself full of electrons.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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