Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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La molesse est doce, et sa suite est cruelle.
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Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
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How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
