"Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go."

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Source : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

Benh Zeitlin

#Passports Quotes

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”
“I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.”
“As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.”
“You can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.”
“A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.”
“Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that”
“I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.”
“The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.”

Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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