"After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?"

-- Amy Tan

#Past Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Never take your eyes off your opponent... even when you bow...”
“Oftentimes, our videos are collective ideas from the group, but others, they're personal ideas. I wanted to represent the video, 'Futuro', as humanity in its current state, with some characters who, unfortunately, make decisions for the rest of us. The flying bus on which they're traveling represents life, or the historic moment that we are going through. That's what I wanted to convey.”
“Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.”
“Dare to be a sucky skateboarder or a lousy video editor or a completely crappy golfer. If we do only the stuff weâ€™re good at, we never learn anything new.”
“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.”

Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.
“Some call it Marxism â€” I call it Judaism.”
“Even when you spar for real and fight with full contact in training, you get hurt or you hurt someone and you see them trying to fight back. I want to inject as much reality as possible into fight scenes, even if some of the moves are slightly larger than life, if the emotion is there you'll then still be able to buy it. I recall seeing some films where people perform an acrobatic flip mid-fight and land with graceful precision and it's almost like watching Zorro... it's almost whimsical but you're no longer engaged.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.”

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