Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
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The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
