Bruno Dumont Quotes
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
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I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.
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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!
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That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
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Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
