"I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh."

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Source : "Behn Zeitlin, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director, Explains Why He Pitched His Film As ‘A League Of Their Own’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

Benh Zeitlin

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“My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.”
“I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood,”
“In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.”
“Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.”
“Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.”
“Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.”
“I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.”

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