Amy Hardie Quotes

United States, Film Maker
1958

A documentary director/producer with several international awards, Amy Hardie graduated from the National Film and Television School with the BP Expo award for best U.K. graduation film. She set up the Scottish Documentary Institute in 2004 with Noe Mendelle, and also created Docspace, dedicated to increasing the audience for serious documentaries. The Edge of Dreaming is her first personal film.

I think the neural pathways in our brains affect what happens in our bodies, and so can alter our health.

Amy Hardie
- Health
- Bodies
- Brains
Shamanism is the oldest form of communicating and healing. It probably resides in all of us.

Amy Hardie

I know I have different priorities when I am close to dreaming and coming out of dreaming. I notice I am connected to people in a different way, and connected to the earth. For me, I have exactly the same emotional responses when I go through into shamanic trance.

Amy Hardie
I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.

Amy Hardie
- Art
- Science
- Questions
We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

Amy Hardie
- Brain
- Dreams
- Wakefulness
A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Amy Hardie
We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.

Amy Hardie
I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.

Amy Hardie
- World
- Real
- Acting

I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

Amy Hardie
- Memories
- Dreams
- Access
Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

Amy Hardie
- Powerful
- Stories
- Create