"Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.”

Source : "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.
“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House
“Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.”
“I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien,' 'Blade Runner' just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons.”
“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.”
“[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.”
“One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”

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