Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Sometimes it takes us a long time to build up songs, and we really work the structures over and over and build in lots of noisy parts.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.
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In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
