Emmanuel Benbihy Quotes
Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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Theater will cast in a more open way; Denzel Washington might play Richard III. Television and film don't really cast openly like that. The theater world has always been a leader in diversity.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
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Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
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Cinema is incredibly concise.
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Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
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The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.
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The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.
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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
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We need god to prosper those without him will not.
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Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
