Haskell Wexler Quotes
In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
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'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
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People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
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A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
