"A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible."

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Source : Le Parisien, May, 2003.

Damian Pettigrew

#Portraits Quotes #Topics Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.”
“He who knows about depth knows about God.”
“Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.”

Source : Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.191, Temple University Press
“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
“I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!”
“There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?”
“The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.”
“I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I donâ€™t care how condescending that sounds, itâ€™s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.”

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