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When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants. ↗


— Jupiter Hammon


#colour #connecticut #during #good #i

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night. ↗


— Darrell Hammond


#building #difficult #get #home #might

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. ↗


— Learned Hand


#end #heresy #in the end #risk #run

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. ↗


— Michael Haneke


#conceived #different #feel #films #funny

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else. ↗


— Michael Haneke


#business #craft #directing #else #i

I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. ↗


— Michael Haneke


#cameras #coffee #come #does #down

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard. ↗


— Gregory Harrison


#done #else #everybody #everybody else #feel

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗


— Michael Haneke


#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. ↗


— Michael Haneke


#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go. ↗


— Tom Hanks


#decided #go #just #live #man






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