"My good films were independent and my bad films were not."

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Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

Ralph Bakshi

#Independent Quotes #Film Quotes

“Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.”
“When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art â€“ and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.”

Source : "Show and Tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2001.
“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.”
“Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.”

Source : James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
“I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.”
“Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.”

Source : William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.135
“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA
“The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender”

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