"From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that."

-- Marina Abramovic

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“I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.”
“I don`t know the facts surrounding Andrew Jarecki`s work. I think it`s a triumph of television. But it does raise troubling issues that I think we as a documentary community, you know, need to address.”
“A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.”
“Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.”
“May God .. let me strive for attainable things.”
“It's not that I'm afraid to die, but I'm terribly, terribly afraid not to live.”
“I don't get inoculations or take anti-malaria tablets when I go abroad; I take the homeopathic alternative, called 'nosodes', and I'm the only one who never goes down with anything.”

Source : "Celebrity endorsements that are science fiction trashed in annual list" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2010.

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