#use

Art should offend people because art should challenge people. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#because #challenge #offend #people #should

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

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#advice #beautiful #because #become #direction

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer. ↗

— Sallust

#conquer #fail #fair #foul #means

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think. ↗

— Walter Salles

#always #because #better #come #documentaries

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself. ↗

— Walter Salles

#because #book #cult #i #into

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. ↗

— Sallust

#himself #life #live #make #me

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. ↗

— Sallust

#action #art #being #engaged #enjoy

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #composes #conducts #faking #immediately

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#artistic #because #being #believe #doing