"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

-- Jean-Jacques Annaud

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“That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think thatâ€™s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that theyâ€™ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.”

Source : Chevy Stevens (2011). “Still Missing”, p.148, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.”
“I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.”
“Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.”
“Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.”
“Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.”

Source : Giacomo Meyerbeer (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters”
“Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.”
“The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.”

Source : Donald Woods Winnicott (2005). “Playing and Reality”, p.149, Psychology Press

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