"The test for me, when I read other people's scripts, is whether I feel like there's something about me that is the best person to tell this story. I have a pretty high bar for myself. There's a lot of scripts that I read and think, "Oh, this is great, but I think there are 50 other directors who could bring this to the cinema.""

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Source : Source: collider.com

Francesca Gregorini

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Directors Quotes

“I was a little hippie on a world backpacking adventure, and suddenly I became a vampire princess. I still find it hard to believe that it is real. I feel ludicrously lucky to have been chosen to play such a compassionate, complex character for my first film, and I am so grateful to all the beautiful people who made it possible for me. It was a dream come true. I felt like Cinderella every day, going to work with this amazing team on this dream script. If Cinderella were a vampire.”
“Let the pictures do the talking!”
“Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.”
“The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, itâ€™s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.”
“The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.”
“When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.”
“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".”
“I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.”

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