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“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Some may view BL series as just another genre that tells the love story between two people, but there are still those who are not open-minded and don't fully accept the idea of sexual diversity. Honestly, I wish they would give it a chance because it's quite fun! Nowadays, BL series come in a variety of styles. There are grand productions, stories that cross borders and time, period dramas, etc. The genre has expanded significantly and has become one of Thailand's soft powers.”

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Author:Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film is not right. But when you are an outsider, you have a little more objectivity.I think a part of my success is that I am naturally objective. I am not an insider.In many ways, Anupama is the same. Foreword, First Day First Show”

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Author:Shah Rukh Khan

“I will never win an Oscar and do you know why?" Clint liked to aver. "Because I’m not Jewish.”

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Book:Clint: The Life and Legend

Source: Clint: The Life and Legend

“People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.”

“Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.”

“Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.”

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Book:The Film Testament

Source: The Film Testament

“Regarding Clint’s methods (as a director), he was a very impatient man who doesn’t really plan his pictures or do any homework, truthfully. He figures he can go right in and sail right through these things. Clint was just as impatient as an actor, especially in an action picture when directing himself. For example, Clint was always blowing his lines. It’s very hard for him to say more than four lines consecutively. And no matter if Clint forgot his lines, he would insist that the camera pick up the dialogue just where he had left off, without going back and starting the lines over. It was the cameraman’s problem to choose different angles and make the pickups, or transitions, work. Notorious for doing his acting scenes with multiple pickups, Clint had an ironclad belief that everything could be fixed in the editing room. Nobody among his fans would notice the incongruities.”

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Book:Clint: The Life and Legend

Source: Clint: The Life and Legend

“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.”

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

Source: The Film Testament

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

Source: The Film Testament

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.”

Source: The Film Testament

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.”

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”

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Book:The Film Testament

Source: The Film Testament

“Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.”

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Book:The Film Testament

Source: The Film Testament

“If a filmmaker has no originality, what's the difference between a filmmaker and a photocopier!”

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Book:Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Career-building is fifty percent creative, fifty percent business. If you don’t respect both sides, you’ll stall.”

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Author:Jen Alvares

“So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s slower, and maybe what’s happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it’s gotten to the point where I can’t hear between the beats anymore and it’s just a hum.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life. But I was wrong.”

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Book:Everything Leads to You

Source: Everything Leads to You

“Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.”

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Book:First Day First Show

Source: First Day First Show

“It was thanks to Alfred Hitchcock that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.”

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Author:Grace Kelly

“Do Iranians make bad movies? I need to find one.”

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Author:P.S. Arjun

“It's not important whether you worked hard or not. Ultimately it's about how the movie is. Nothing else matters.”

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Author:P.S. Arjun

“Call me old-fashioned, but The Shape of Water is a tour de force. Maddening. Heartfelt. Sick. Nostalgic. An Ode to Todd McCarthy, Arnold Glassman, and Stuart Samuels’ documentary film, Visions of Light. By all means, take a bow.”

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Author:A.K. Kuykendall

“The only reason some people think finding investors is difficult is because they don't know where to look. Think about this: people with money--millionaires even--are around you every day, whether you recognize them or not. Everybody--even your friend who works at McDonald's--has some sort of paycheck. It may be two hundred dollars or it may be two hundred thousand dollars, but almost everyone has a source of income. The question is: what do they DO with that income?”

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Book:T.R.U.S.T.: How Psychology and a Simple 5-Letter Acronym Will Help You Raise the Money You Need, Recruit the Team You Want, & Engender the Support You Crave

Source: T.R.U.S.T.: How Psychology and a Simple 5-Letter Acronym Will Help You Raise the Money You Need, Recruit the Team You Want, & Engender the Support You Crave

“With every movie that they do, they’ll come up with a few films they really like and we’ll talk about them. Way back when we did Barton Fink, Joel and Ethan would say, ’Think Kubrick!”

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Book:The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

Source: The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together

“The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell. But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script.”

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Book:Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

Source: Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

“Cinema centered on ragebait is junglywood.”

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Book:With Love From A Blue Rock

Source: With Love From A Blue Rock

“Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.”