"Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian."

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Source : "Critical Consensus: Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum Discuss Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. January 6, 2012.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

#Feels Quotes #Behave Quotes #Obliged Quotes

“What I want is to have no enemies when I die. Right now, I seem to have a lot of them.”
“Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.”
“You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.”
“I was madder than a midget with a yo-yo”
“We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.”
“Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place.”

Source : Interview with Ron Slomowicz, notabledance.com. August 31, 2004.
“The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.”

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