#mma

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. ↗

— David Antin

#committed #composing #experimental #filmmaker #i

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. ↗

— Mary Antin

#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#film #filmmakers #hear #i #issue

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#filmmakers #goes #mind #more #opposed

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#i #independent #night #office #realized

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#god #godless #had #i #make

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#commands #distinct #fact #gives #kinds

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life. ↗

— John James Audubon

#care #caught #charge #commanded #fever

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#cannot #command #except #her #obeying

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#also #command #complete #completely #connery