"Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at."

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Source : Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

Elizabeth Ashley

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“I'm ready for all forms of dialogue about the film The Conquest. There will be a lot of political talk, but I don't think the film itself will be scandalous. For the French, there are so many emotions relating to Sarkozy and politicians in general that I think the film will generate a lot of passion, whether it be negative or positive. Above all, it's a fictional film. It was important not to make a documentary and to really pay attention to the images. From the choice of the actors to the mise en scene, the film is completely cinematographic. It's not just a boring political movie.”
“Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.”
“To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.”
“Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change”

Source : Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.124, Portobello Books
“Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.”
“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.”
“Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them”
“It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.”

Source : Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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