"I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work."

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Source : "Meet the 2012 Tribeca Filmmakers #18: ‘The Flat’ Director Arnon Goldfinger". www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2012.

Arnon Goldfinger

#Believe Quotes #Balance Quotes #Documentaries Quotes

“If I am going to be drowned â€“ if I am going to be drowned â€“ if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?”
“If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.”
“Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.”

Source : "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.
“I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns”
“Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.”
“Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.”
“Live a life less ordinary.”

Source : Interview with Jesse Thorn, swissmarg.dreamwidth.org. May 16, 2012.
“I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.”

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