"'Hoop Dreams' brought us back to our roots in verÃtÃ© filmmaking. What we saw in the powerful emotional scenes within it - at nearly three hours long and with no star power - was an outreach to a different and more important audiences. There were the similarly involved folks who saw it that were part of the struggle, but there was also a new audience that weren't empathetic or sympathetic to the people we were portraying. They would never watch a film about inner city families, but they watched 'Hoop Dreams.'"

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Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

Gordon Quinn

#Dream Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.”
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

Source : "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.
“Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.”
“You are mysterious, I love you. Youâ€™re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and thatâ€™s the rarest known combination.”
“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”
“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”
“That lad must have been born offside.”

Source : Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.
“Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.”

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