"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."

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Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Brian De Palma

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“I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it wasn't for hiphop they'd still be living in that. So when I think of hiphop, I think hiphop saves lifes, hiphop changes lives.”
“Seen from the moon we are all the same size.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“The advance of technology, like the growth of population and industry, has also been proceeding exponentially.”
“...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”
“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
“I'm not really an impersonator.”
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
“As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.”

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