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People get really uncomfortable when they really see themselves for who and what they truly are.  I should know.  In my own way, I get to or am made to feel that way on occasion.



It’s very easy to dislike or loathe someone if you don’t know them personally.  It’s very easy to say terrible things about them.  We always say terrible things or loathe our image of the person in our mind, but never about the real person.

 

Emotions do not travel in a straight line.





the beloved



I was supposed to get a book on film gender.  I realized we shouldn’t be challenging film history, but life itself.

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- Raya Martin, filmmaker

 



On the other hand, I kinda feel this force to go for it, hell with budget.

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- Raya Martin, filmmaker

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Hindi ko pa rin mareconcile kung bakit gusto ng tao ang certainty.  Yes, kasi naprepreserve ang mindsets nila … Pero ano pa? (I cannot reconcile why people want certainty.  Yes because it preserves their mindsets ... but then what?)



- Raya Martin, filmmaker



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the inspirers



Say what you are.  Not what you would like to be.  Not what you have to be.  Just say what you are.  And what you are is Good enough

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- John Cassavetes, filmmaker

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What is artistic creation? Conviction. And if it is conviction it means it is accompanied by errors. If errors then - does this indicate falseness? No, firstly, errors do not always indicate falseness, and secondly, why avoid errors if art utilises not truth, not essence, but an image of truth, an image of essence. [...]

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- Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker

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“To the actor, film must be like life itself: a riddle, a secret, a mystery.”

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- Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker

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“The cinematographical paradox consists in exactly this, that a living soul is reconstructed in a cold, mechanical mirror...”



- Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker





"The element I am trying to emphasise is the lack of pride."

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- Andrei Tarkovsky, filmmaker