"Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Andrey Zvyagintsev

#Believe Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.”
“What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.”
“I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.”
“There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack... you will make marvelous demonstrations.”
“My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes.”
“I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the proper rewards of the military' (the desolators of the world in all ages). 'Men of science are better left to the applause of their own hearts.' Most learned Legislator! Most liberal cotton-spinner! Was your title the proper reward of military prowess? Pity you hold not the dungeon-keys of an English Inquisition! Perhaps Science, like creeds, would flourish best under a little persecution.”

Source : John Joseph Griffin (1834). “Chemical Recreations: A Series of Amusing and Instructive Experiments, which May be Performed with Ease, Safety, Success, and Economy ; to which is Added, The Romance of Chemistry : an Inquiry Into the Fallacies of the Prevailing Theory of Chemistry : with a New Theory and a New Nomenclature”, p.232
“Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.”
“Words are healers of the sick tempered.”

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