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Film Maker Inspirational Quotes (20)

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People want black and white answers, but it's not one thing or another. I think the only way we're going to make good things is to inspire people and make them feel as though what they're watching is real.
Kim Longinotto
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The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.
Kim Longinotto
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I remember very clearly when I found my first soulmate, it was actually in my late 20s, that wonderful feeling of being accepted by people.
Kim Longinotto
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The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment
Kalle Lasn
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The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.
Kalle Lasn
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I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.
Kim Longinotto
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I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.
Kim Longinotto
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I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of masculine and feminine are going very fast with the rise of transgender rights that are questioning what all these categories are.
Kim Longinotto
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Corporations are not legal persons with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.
Kalle Lasn
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A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.
Paul Rotha
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There's no point in making something if you're not falling in love with the people you're filming and you want them to really enjoy you being around. It would be weird if, when you're making a film, you don't think it's going to be the best ever or the worst ever - I guess it goes from one feeling to another.
Kim Longinotto
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
Kalle Lasn
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Personally, I don't like watching films about victims - people where you're meant to think, 'Oh, this is terrible,' and you go home feeling really depressed.
Kim Longinotto
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I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.
Kim Longinotto
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America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.
Kalle Lasn
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I try to make films where the audience forgets the filmmaking and gets engrossed in the story as it unfolds. I don't want them to ever feel bored, or that they're being told what to think, or to feel depressed. I don't like films about victims - I want to celebrate brave survivors like Brenda and the wonderful women in the film.
Kim Longinotto
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The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.
Kalle Lasn
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Those are the films I want to make. I don't want to make a film about, Oh, those poor prostitutes! Or Oh, isn't it terrible in Chicago! I want to make a film where people think, Brenda's like me!
Kim Longinotto
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It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that we'll find a story. I have to trust that a film will come out of the journey we embark on. I have many, many sleepless nights.
Kim Longinotto
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Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do.
Kalle Lasn