"If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Vilmos Zsigmond

#Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes #Technique Quotes

“The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.”
“Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.”
“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”
“The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan, the holy air, which renews all by its breath. Woniya wakan, spirit, life, breath, renewal, it means all that. We sit together, donâ€™t touch, but something is there, we feel it between us as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature is to talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds, as to our relatives.”
“We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.”
“I like marriage. I've been married three times.”

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