"When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit."

-- Akira Kurosawa

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“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
“Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !”
“As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.
“In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.”
“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”
“I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.”
“My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies,”

Source : "60 Minutes/ Firing Back/Lies/Weapons of Mass Destruction". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2003.
“Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.”

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