"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."

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Patrice Leconte

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“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.”
“At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.”

Source : Donald O. Clifton, Al Winseman, Curt Liesveld (2004). “Living Your Strengths”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“We've seen hate groups rise across the country. But we've also seen an increase in the average person, who looks like your doctor, your lawyer, your mechanic, your dentists, starting to say the same types of rhetoric. Sometimes it's a little bit more polished, something the average person who has underlying racism can attach himself to. I'm less concerned about skinheads and Klansmen now than the average person who feels emboldened, and the militia and sovereign-citizen groups who are certainly tied to white supremacist organizations, training in paramilitary camps.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.”

Source : Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.156, University of Georgia Press
“I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also your peak baby-making years, and that's just the truth. And those are choices women have to make.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“No man that good-looking could be a bachelor. Life wasn't that kind.”

Source : Gaelen Foley (2006). “The Duke”, p.69, Ballantine Books
“Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.”

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