"I love when a director says, "I don't know.""

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

John Cameron Mitchell

#Directors Quotes #Knows Quotes

“Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?”
“I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“A photo is a creation.”
“After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.”
“Whatever the truth is, I donâ€™t see how it will help me get food on the table.”
“I think one of the most wonderful things we can do as performers is to remind audiences that they can still relate to the emotions and feelings, as though the music had been written yesterday.”

Source : "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
“The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.”

Source : "Maya Rudolph on the job you can do better than anyone else". www.today.com. May 10, 2011.

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