"I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot."

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Source : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

Andrew Dominik

#Thinking Quotes #Tests Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.”
“I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.”
“A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.”

Source : "Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria and Common Talk HAPPY FEET TWO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”
“Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.”
“When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.”
“In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2007). “Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter: The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.218, Macmillan

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