"Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn't too well-informed about what is going on in the Vichy government."

-- Robert O. Paxton

#War Quotes #Agency Quotes #Government Quotes

“The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.”

Source : "Essay on the Literary Character" by Isaac D'Israeli, Preface p. xxix, and Vol. I, p. 187, 1795.
“I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?”
“Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.”
“I channel a lot of my own personal relationships anytime I prep for something.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
“The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.”
“I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.”

Source : "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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