"From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony."

-- Maya Beiser

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“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”
“People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.”
“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
“There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”
“The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'”
“Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.”

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“Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.”

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