Barbara Kopple Quotes
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
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Get there first with the most.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
