"And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you."

-- Rodrigo Cortes

#Character Quotes #Focus Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it”
“Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?”
“I've had to work on being a slow talker.”

Source : "Actor gets the word out on stuttering" by Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2003.
“Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.”
“Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.”
“One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.”
“It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.”
“Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.”

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