"My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery."

-- Pamela Yates

#Lonely Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Children are the keys of paradise.”

Source : "Songs of Summer". Book by Richard Henry Stoddard, p. 113, 1856.
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.212, A&C Black
“I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.”
“I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.”
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
“There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”

Source : "Great Thought". "The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler" (1976) by Raymond Chandler, February 19, 1938.
“I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....”

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