Nina Menkes quotes

I am surely a feminist filmmaker, but not because I set out to become one, or am trying to make any kind of statement. Rather, it's inherent in the act of expressing myself, as a woman who is deeply alienated from mainstream cinematic structures of seeing. I express myself and am instantly feminist.
-- Nina Menkes

#Feminist #Trying #Kind

The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can be unearthed and illuminated - on condition that I am listening - with my spirit, heart, eyes and guts on a single axis.
-- Nina Menkes

#Powerful #Moving #Heart

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing.
-- Nina Menkes

#Editing #Cameras #Kind

I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.
-- Nina Menkes

#Real #Always Trying #Feelings

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.