Shaul Schwarz quotes

“I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with the people. That's where photojournalists have a lot of magic.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#People Quotes #Magic Quotes #Details Quotes

“Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stopping Quotes

“Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've ever gone to, I've also seen people being extraordinary in a good sense. It's not just a black and white extreme situation that pushes people to extremes and they do crazy bad stuff. You also see crazy brave stuff. You see humanity in a different light.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

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“I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I fly in, I care about every place I go including conflicts.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“It's harder than it looks to infiltrate this world.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#Looks Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“I think people were very skeptical always when they said, "Oh docs, they don't work. When you make depressing docs that don't have 'save this or save that,' they just can't do well." I fought very hard to say, "No. This is important. I think people care and I think it's interesting." I hope people go see it.”
-- Shaul Schwarz

#Depressing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“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.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“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.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”

“Magic likes a good tragedy, too.”

“If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.”

“For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.”

“All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.”

“This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.”