Carl Theodor Dreyer Quotes
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband.
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I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.
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Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.
