"Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect."

-- Pamela Yates

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“In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'”
“And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1988). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
“There is no person without a world.”

Source : Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf
“In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.”

Source : "The New World of Nicolas Berggruen". Interview with Richard Bradley, www.worth.com. October 21, 2012.
“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

Source : FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Feb 17, 2017
“The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.”
“One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

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