Jorgen Leth Quotes

#1. Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

Robert Henry Thurston

#2. And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Pablo Neruda

#3. When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.

Jorgen Leth

#4. The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Laurence Yep

#5. The perfect human falls.

Jorgen Leth

#6. I like the idea of chance coming into filmmaking, in shooting, in editing, and I do make space in my rules of game for chance.

Jorgen Leth

#7. I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

Jorgen Leth

#8. Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

Jorgen Leth

#9. When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

Ron Paul

#10. I've been fascinated with the subject of loss for a long time. In particular, I'm interested in how people, consciously or unconsciously, spend their lives replacing the things they lost when they were children.

Jill Davis

#11. What I have written, I have written.

Pontius Pilate

#12. Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.

Muhammad Ali

#13. Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.

Jorgen Leth

#14. If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

Oliver Cromwell

#15. When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.

Jorgen Leth

#16. I hate films with a clear message, ones that have their answers already when they start.

Jorgen Leth

#17. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Frederick Douglass

#18. I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.

Jorgen Leth

#19. To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

Alfred De Vigny

#20. I'm a man who struggles with melancholy and depression, but I am a very productive filmmaker and I work constantly, with no pause. Even in the worst of crises, I manage to produce work. And that's keeping me alive.

Jorgen Leth

#21. she had nothing now that the fantasy was gone.

J.R. Ward