Following is as odious to me, as acting as a guide is. Nietzsche.You have to touch life at a point where nobody has touched it before. Nobody can teach you that.
U.G. Krishnamurti
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Goethe |
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Dorothea Lange. |
Cinema uses your life, not vice-versa. Andrei Tarkovsky |
Give time to time. Cervantes |
| Film writing and directing cannot be taught only learned, and each man or woman has to learn it through his or her own system of self-education. Alexander Mackendrick | It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple. Dziga Vertov |
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci |
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Alain |
His writing is not about something, it is that something itself. Samuel Beckett |
If you can do it, then why do it? Gertrude Stein |
Artistic activity provides the artist with the question of not being the author of his/her works. Emmanuel Lévinas |
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Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson |
Wherever you go, there you are. The People's Guide To Mexico. |
Uma câmera na mão e uma idéia na cabeça/a camera in the hand and an idea in the head - Cinema Novo |
The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias. Gustave Flaubert |
Following is as odious to me, as acting as a guide is. Nietzsche.
O N G O I N G C O U R S E S
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In fiction you are trying to make it seem as real as possible, and in documentary you are seeking to make it as |
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P A S T C O U R S E S
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.
Emerson
The type of perfection to which commercial cinema aspires (the use of its technical capabilities solely to maintain the established order), mirrors precisely its subservience to dominant social codes... Commercial filmmaking can be very clever, but rarely intelligent. Marguerite Duras |
R E S O U R C E S
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For you cinema is spectacle
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