Cosima Spender Quotes
Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I grew up on films.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.
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I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.
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The visuals and the audio, could stand by themselves in a way. But the whole idea of the thing, is that they would exist together. So I think together, they're way more of a stronger thing. You could listen to just the music, or just watch the video, but I think it would really mean... obviously it would just be half the experience.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.
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Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
