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“She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.”
“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with ...”
“A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as ...”
“The world is shaped by two things stories told and the memories they leave behind.”
“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at allbecause all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if...”
“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism use to it terminate misogyny use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”
“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”
“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”
“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”
“Make movies my friend make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.”
“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”
“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nem...”
“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”
“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.”
“... so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it.Not what it c...”
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden o...”
“It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.”
“I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!”
“When truth and virtue are so rare in almost every area of our society the world needs theatre and the theatre needs actors who will bring the truth of the human soul to the stage. The theatre may n...”
