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.
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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.
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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.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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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.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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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.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
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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.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.
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I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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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.
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I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth.
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In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always so easy. Obviously, you don't want to keep repeating yourself, all the time. So, it's a constant struggle for every filmmaker and actor to find something that you can really feel passionate about. It's a profession like anything else.
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The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
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Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.
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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.
