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Kasi Lemmons

"The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you canâ€™t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind."

Source : "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.

Kasi Lemmons

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.”
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
“I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.”
“I can't help but look for my future wife in the crowd.”
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
“Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.”
“When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.450, Macmillan

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