"I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking."

-- Krzysztof Kieslowski

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“Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.”
“American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.”

Source : "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.
“Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.”

Source : "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.
“I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.”
“The eyes are the amulets of the mind.”
“I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much,”

Source : "Fernando Botero: Colombian Artist Turns 80 And Has No Plans To Retire" by Laura Steiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2012.
“Iâ€™m a coward, I close my eyes. I donâ€™t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.”
“I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.”

Source : "Holt McCallany and Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview, collider.com. March 23, 2011.

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