Leni Riefenstahl Quotes
I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
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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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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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You can get beat any day.
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The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
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I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
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I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
