Lisa Cholodenko Quotes
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
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I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.