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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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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 love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
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Film is a great tool to play with time, going back and forth through time, or speeding time up and slowing it down and do stuff like that. That's something you can't experience in real life that you can experience on film, and it takes you to a different place.
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.
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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.
