"I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime."

-- David Puttnam

#Country Quotes #Focus Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.”
“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.”
“He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.”
“Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy”
“Few things turn-off an audience more than a performer with an air of self-imporance or a 'message.'”
“The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.”
“To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.”
“Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.”

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