"Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Lenny Abrahamson

#Focus Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.”
“I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.”
“It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.”
“I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.”
“WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.”
“I think I've proven with my career that I can play a wide variety of characters. Yet, I still get typecast as the crazy slob guy. That's how it always works.”
“If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.”

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