"I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."

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Alain Resnais

#Special Quotes #Film Quotes #Appetite Quotes

“Women should stick together. Didnâ€™t you learn anything yet?”

Source : Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.23, Macmillan
“I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.”
“Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.”
“Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.”
“The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.”
“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.”
“I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling perusal, my hands locked behind my back to keep them from reaching out for Le Morte D'Arthur, Caxton 1485 or the delicious little red-and-gilt Bestiary, MS Circa 1250 or.... If I took one down, I should be lost. So I looked, like a hungry child in a sweet shop, and trailed out on my guide's heels with one longing backward glance.”
“To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.”

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