"Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money"

-- Vanna Bonta

“I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.”
“I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.”
“The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.”
“The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.”
“In the past, people could use their music because there are these bootlegs floating around that were supposedly public domain but they weren't, and now they've locked everything up and it's become really near impossible to use their music in movies.”

Source : "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.
“Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.”
“Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.”
“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.”

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