"Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation."

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Source : Source: theculturalgutter.com

Dave McKean

#Powerful Quotes #Editing Quotes #Play Quotes

“A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.”
“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. xlvii, 1930.
“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”
“Life is a near-death experience.”
“The world that has made us can no longer contain us”
“There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.”
“I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.”
“To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.”

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