"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."

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Source : "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

Norman Jewison

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“The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.”
“If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.”

Source : Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
“If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.”
“I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.”
“You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.”
“My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.”
“When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 740-45, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire, 1922.
“The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.”

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