"I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike."

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Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.

Jehane Noujaim

#People Quotes #Film Quotes #I Can Quotes

“The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.”
“I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.”
“The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.”

Source : Chuck Hillig (2007). “Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of who You are”, p.235, Sentient Publications
“I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.”
“The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.”
“A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.”

Source : "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.
“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today”
“You can not kill that which is already dead.”

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