Joel Basman quotes
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“You want to do movies that you are proud of - telling a story that you want to tell, not a story that you are forced to. Of course, as an actor, there are some things that you do that you try to forget about, but that's part of the job.”
-- Joel BasmanSource : Source: www.popmatters.com
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“There is still so much that I want to see and do, but for me, it's the pure satisfaction of doing what you really want. I always had a problem doing things that I didn't want to do. I don't have a problem when my director says: "Don't do it like this; I want it like this." But generally in life, I like to do what I want, and for me the best way is through acting and making films.”
-- Joel BasmanSource : Source: www.popmatters.com
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“You shoot this and it always has something of yourself - sometimes it's more and sometimes it's less. I think after the shooting it depends on who your character is. You definitely learn something about yourself, or you get to know sides that you knew you had, but you had never activated or triggered in a way that allowed you to let them out. Bad and good, all of this is in all of us. But you definitely meet another side or a quarter or ten percent of yourself that you had an idea of, but never really knew about.”
-- Joel BasmanSource : Source: www.popmatters.com
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”
Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
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“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”
Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”
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“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”