"Philosophy is the rational expression of genius."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

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“So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought.”
“If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.”
“I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.”
“People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the ***** in Washington who promote wars.”
“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”
“The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.”

Source : Mike Figgis (2012). “Digital Film-Making”, p.54, Faber & Faber
“I've done sport for a long time.”
“The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.”

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