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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
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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 work looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work, making a feature film was almost the same challenge.
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I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Directing music videos is all about capturing images.
