Bruno Dumont Quotes
I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
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When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.
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I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.
