Lee Hirsch quotes

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.
-- Lee Hirsch

#Movement #Mouths #Film

As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such a place where you feel like nobody is listening and you can't communicate what's happening.
-- Lee Hirsch

#Kids #Voice #Listening

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.
-- Lee Hirsch

#Heart #Emotional #Inspire

All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.
-- Lee Hirsch

#Bullying #Struggle #Kids

When I was bullied, I could go home and it would stop. Now, you can go home and get a text, or you can put up a YouTube video and 200 people say horrible crap, or someone has launched a website about you. That stuff is really terrifying.
-- Lee Hirsch

#Home #People #Stuff

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The power to bind and loose to Truth is given: The mouth that speaks it is the mouth of Heaven, The power, which in a sense belongs to none, Thus understood belongs to every one.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.