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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

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

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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

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

— Walter Salles

#films #i #interested #living #more

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. ↗

— Walter Salles

#america #latin #latin america #leprosy #much

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#always #became #continuity #continuous #form

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#athens #being #cool #croatia #excited

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#guy #i #i do #lucky #lucky guy