Dean Israelite Quotes
I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.
Quotes to Explore
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
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The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
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The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
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There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem.
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I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.
