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Kleber Mendonca Filho
"Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process." --
Source : "Interview: Kebler Mendonça Filho on his film ‘Neighboring Sounds’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2013.
Kleber Mendonca Filho
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“It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.”
“To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.”
Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing
“Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?”
“There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.”
“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”
Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)
“Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.”
“The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.”
“I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.”
