Alanis Obomsawin Quotes
Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
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A lot of the reasons that I'm resistant to making films in the U.S. have nothing to do with not doing a film in Hollywood, but rather to do with what I'm committed to working on in the U.K. I feel very committed to the British film industry and infrastructure.
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Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.
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In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
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Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.
