"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.”

Source : "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.
“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House
“We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.”
“By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.”
“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press
“Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.”
“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”
“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”

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