"While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV."

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Source : "Terry Semel Joins SnagFilms’ Board, Invests in Online Distributor". www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2012.

Terry Semel

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“War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.”
“There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.”
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
“The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.”
“Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.”
“There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.”

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