"You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?"

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Gavin Hood

#Artistic Ability Quotes #Black Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.”
“I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.”

Source : "Staind: An IGN Classic Interview". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2003.
“I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 6, 2014
“If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.”
“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and Iâ€™d like to keep quiet any unnecessary rumors about sexuality. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that Iâ€™m gay isnâ€™t the most interesting part of me.”

Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”
“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2008). “The Woman in White”, p.396, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved. . . . I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.”
“But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.”

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