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.
Chantal Akerman
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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.
Sam Rockwell
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
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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.
Hannah Kent
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
J. J. Abrams
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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.
Callum Keith Rennie
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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.
Olivia Colman
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
Aberjhani
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
Mark Lawrenson
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What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.
Seth Godin
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I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.
James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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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.
Chantal Akerman
