"Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour."

-- Galina Ulanova

#Dance Quotes #Artist Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!”
“What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.”
“Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.”
“There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be--not just always do.”
“Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.”

Source : 1610 On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610.
“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
“I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.”
“From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.”

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