"I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If youâ€™re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if youâ€™re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie."

-- Jean Rouch

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“If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.”
“As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs in their old purity. It is my hope that we will all love and guard our beautiful sign language as the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.”
“A clear conscience is the softest pillow in the world.”
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”
“Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.”
“Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.”
“I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.”
“Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.”

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