"I always like to cite John Cage's mantra, "If you can stand it for two-minutes, try it for four." In fact, when I look at some of those early films of mine, I think, "Oh my God. Cut it, cut it." The general sense of duration has changed over the years, my own sensibility with it."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,”
“Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.”
“I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that”
“I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed... My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is in God's hands... I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till he comes, give until I drop, speak out until all know, and work until he stops me.”
“In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.”

Source : "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)
“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
“I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren are] my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”
“You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.”

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