"Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, BuÃ±uel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role."

-- John Berger

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“For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.”

Source : Edward Everett Hale (1903). “"We, the People": A Series of Papers on Topics of Toda”
“I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
“When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.”
“What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
“Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.”
“Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.”
“I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.”

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