Emmanuel Benbihy quotes

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy

#Art #Strong #People

Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy

#Filmmaker #Intrigued #Audience

Everybody sees things their own way, but putting it onscreen is a different story - you have to deal with production crews. That's what differentiates a good director.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy

#Different

People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy

#People #Sometimes #Fame

We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.
-- Emmanuel Benbihy

#Dream #People #Chance

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.