"If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do."

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Source : "Cinematography Roundtable: Roger Deakins and 5 Other Top DPs on Angelina Jolie's Directing Style, Shooting Through Hurricanes and Film vs. Digital". Interview with Gregg Kilday and Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 2, 2014.

Roger Deakins

#Working It Quotes #Reviewers Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.”
“Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.”

Source : Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.”

Source : "Learn to look - art and tech demand it" by Honor Harger, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.
“Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.”
“Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.”

Source : Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.”
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
“Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.”

Source : Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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