#mma

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. ↗

— Ang Lee

#canvas #chance #film #filmmaker #personal

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#filmmaker #i #idea #young

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. ↗

— Ang Lee

#filmmaking #films #history #i #incredible

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comes #essence #illusion #immaterial #life

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast. ↗

— Ang Lee

#establishment #fast #filmmaking #happen #level

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker. ↗

— Spike Lee

#filmmaker #films #i #live #new

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#church #comes #commandments #contradiction #duty

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#dilemmas #had #i #indeed #life