Chantal Akerman Quotes
I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.
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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
