Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes

#1. I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#2. The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Peter Jackson

#3. We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Arthur Koestler

#4. The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#5. My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#6. So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.'
Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.'
Whatever you say.

John Flanagan

#7. The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

Bayard Taylor

#8. Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

Matthew Yglesias

#9. I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#10. I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

Judy Gold

#11. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Samuel Johnson

#12. When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#13. I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#14. The first American word that I learned was cheeseburger. And the first sentence I learned was, "I'm sorry but we don't serve breakfast after 12 o'clock."

Callan McAuliffe

#15. Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

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#17. Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#18. To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

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#19. The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.

Hortense Powdermaker

#20. A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#21. There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Fernand Braudel

#22. Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#23. The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#24. When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

Abdellatif Kechiche