#us

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique. ↗

— David Lean

#audience #conscious #director #film #job

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. ↗

— Edward Lear

#built #feared #four #hen #i

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #pretty #six #useless #weak

Sí, de repente lo ví así: la mayoría de la gente se engaña mediante una doble creencia errónea: cree en el eterno recuerdo (de la gente, de las cosas, de los actos, de las naciones) y en la posibilidad de reparación (de los actos, de los errores, de los pecados, de las injusticias.Ambas creencias son falsas. La realidad es precisamente al contrario: todo será olvidado y nada será reparado. El papel de la reparación (de la venganza y el perdón) lo lleva a cabo el olvido. Nadie reparará las injusticias que se cometieron, pero todas las injusticias serán olvidadas”. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#justice #revenge #forgiveness

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care. ↗

— Norman Lear

#causes #gravitated #issues #made #people

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#camera #holding #i #i can #subtle

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#going #hope #i #into #may

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#because #cents #dollar #earn #every

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#funny #good #i #just #naturally