Apichatpong Weerasethakul Quotes
More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look, each reel of the film has a different style - acting style, lighting style, or cinematic references - but most of them reflect movies. I think that when you make a film about recollection and death, you have to consider that cinema is also dying - at least this kind of old cinema that nobody makes anymore.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
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More than my other films, Uncle Boonmee is very much about cinema, that's also why it's personal. If you care to look, each reel of the film has a different style - acting style, lighting style, or cinematic references - but most of them reflect movies. I think that when you make a film about recollection and death, you have to consider that cinema is also dying - at least this kind of old cinema that nobody makes anymore.
