"As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important."

-- Takashi Miike

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“Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.
“Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?”
“I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.”
“I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.”
“The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.”

Source : Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation
“I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.”

Source : "Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.
“Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.”

Source : "Lynne Ramsay: 'Just talk to me straight'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.
“When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.”

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