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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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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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 kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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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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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.
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Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
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We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.
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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.
