"All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography."

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Source : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.

Lauren Greenfield

#Photography Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Film Quotes

“what you fear, you invite.”
“Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.”
“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I'd say that compassion begins with attention.”
“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”
“I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.”
“My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store.”
“In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.”
“I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.”

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