"I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world."

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Source : "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

Michael Haneke

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Trying Quotes

“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”
“Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.”

Source : John R. W. Stott (1991). “You Can Trust the Bible: Our Foundation for Belief and Obedience”, Discovery House Pub
“The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.”

Source : "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.
“Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.”

Source : Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
“A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.”
“It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.”
“My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.”
“One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.”

Source : Eugene O'Neill, Travis Bogard (1988). “The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Yale University Press

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