"The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator."

-- Ken Loach

#Focus Quotes #Soul Quotes #Directors Quotes

“The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “A Calculated Risk: A Novel”, p.91, Open Road Media
“I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That's all I think about.”
“When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.”
“We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer you get to the middle, that is to say - the closer you get to the heart - the sweeter we get.”
“All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.”

Source : 'England's Helicon' (1600) 'The Unknown Shepherd's Complaint' (renying ?reneging)
“A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.”
“Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.”
“I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.”

Source : "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

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