Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Quotes

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Communication
  • Theory
  • Philosophical

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Work
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• I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
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  • Appetite

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
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• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Guitar
  • Learned

• I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Television

• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Learned

• As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Child
  • Field
  • Playground

• All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Film

• I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Beauty
  • Acting
  • Learned

• I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Learned
  • Used
  • Maniacal

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Movies

• I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Learned
  • Ride
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• I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

  

  Lorde
  • Time
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  • Long

• I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Field

• I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Field
  • Comic
  • Pigeonholed

• All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Times
  • Tumult
  • Tranquillity

• We like the ambiance and atmosphere, and we felt really early that... I mean, of course, Air is an electronic band, but we are doing so many real recordings and the studio is so important for the sound. The acoustics create atmosphere and emotion. Also we want to be independent, we don't want to be obliged to go into a commercial studio and only stay one week because it's really expensive. We want to be able to give a chance to a song, and to spend a lot of time in the studio.

  

  Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air
  • Real
  • Song
  • Giving

• I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

  

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
  • Learned
  • Field
  • Filmmaker