"Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Dee Rees

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Done Quotes

“Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.”
“Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we like: we can be wicked, we can be stupid, we can be full of faults, we can backslide. In a sense, it doesnâ€™t matter. But we must be spiritually receptive; we have to be willing and ready to learn. When we know that we do not know, everything is possible.”
“When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.”
“Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
“The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.”

Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
“If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.”
“The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.”
“The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.”

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