David Doubilet Quotes
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
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I like bags that are easy to wear and are pretty to look at. But I don't like them when they have no space and you can't put anything in them.
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Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
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I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.
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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
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In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
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I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
