"I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing."

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Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Nadine Labaki

#Distance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.”
“All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.”
“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source : Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”
“I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen”
“Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.”
“I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.”
“How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.”
“Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.”

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