"I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de crÃ©ation where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art."

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Source : Le Parisien, May, 2003.

Damian Pettigrew

#Art Quotes #Successful Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function”
“A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliotâ€™s designation of our return is â€˜through the unknown remembered gate.'”
“A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”

Source : 1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.
“I was always the smallest guy on the field.”
“As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.”
“The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.”
“Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.”
“Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.”

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