Bruno Dumont Quotes

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Bruno Dumont

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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.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
  • Better
  • Horse

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
  • Over
  • His

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• 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.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• 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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • More
  • Workers

• 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.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Done
  • Start

• My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • America
  • High
  • See

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • American
  • Oppression
  • Walls

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • She
  • Hope
  • Death

• Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Good
  • You
  • Fire

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• 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.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • She
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • May
  • Angry
  • Criticism

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Questions

• There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Real
  • Help
  • Action

• Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Purpose

• Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Said

• Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

  

  Bruno Dumont
  • Spiritual