Damian Pettigrew Quotes
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.
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Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic human right. And that is spread around the world.
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Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.
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I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
