Nia Long Quotes
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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I like creating images.
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I remember watching myself on video and being so disappointed with myself because I was constantly moving around the place and laughing. I thought, 'I must be so much louder than I think I am. From inside it feels fine.'
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I'm the queen of the independent video!
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
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I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
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I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
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I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.
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'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.
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The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
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We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?
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SEO is a race, not a sprint.
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Directing music videos is all about capturing images.
