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David Lean Quotes

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991

Topics

Job Reality Director Real Audience

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

Craving Understood Lot Any Writers

The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.

Life Change Age Food Old Age Me

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

People Think Find Human Ambiguity

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Anxiety Trying Security Being There

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Passion Television Moral Propaganda

If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.

Life Work Family Balance Think You

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Nature Time You Know Realistic Who

Our country is pathologically violent.

Country Violent Our

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

People Boundaries Difficulty Bipolar

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

Sacrifice Suffering World Look House

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Moses Mendelssohn

Beauty Satisfaction Mark Far Still

If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.

Kerby Jean-Raymond

Together Space Feel Luxury You

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