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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#boredom #brings #life #straight #too

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#actor #because #big #big difference #did

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#advice #beautiful #because #become #direction

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#around #being #company #day #difference

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#audiences #films #hollywood #hollywood films #important

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#films #i #influenced #inspired #made

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa. ↗

— Walter Salles

#american #american films #brazil #create #distributed

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past. ↗

— Walter Salles

#brazil #cinema #done #echoing #generation

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films. ↗

— Walter Salles

#did #documentaries #fiction #films #i

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films. ↗

— Walter Salles

#films #i #interested #living #more