"I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use."

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Philippe Claudel

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Technique Quotes

“If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.”

Source : Harry Huntt Ransom (1962). “The Vision of Karl Hoblitzelle”
“Laws are inoperative in war”
“people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.”
“I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.”
“For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do I make this film. That's part of the pleasure and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.”
“In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.”
“Uh, what are you doing?â€ â€œNothing much. Just erasing all of Calindaâ€™s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but Iâ€™m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine sheâ€™ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.”
“Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.”

Source : Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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