"I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise."

-- James McBride

#Color Quotes #Wish Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.”

Source : Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.
“One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.”
“We asked for workers. We got people instead.”
“No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.”
“God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.”
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40
“After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.”
“Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.”

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