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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The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
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..I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
