"I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16."

-- Yony Leyser

#Mom Quotes #Art Quotes #School Quotes

“Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.”
“I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.”

Source : "Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.
“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.”
“Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.”
“Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.”
“Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.”
“Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.”
“If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.”

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