Eliza Hittman quotes

“I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male nudity in the film, I think, is unnecessarily provocative. It's meant to be everyday.”
-- Eliza Hittman

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com

#Thinking Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Important Quotes

“Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.”
-- Eliza Hittman

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#Brooklyn Quotes #Old And New Quotes #World Quotes

“My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.”
-- Eliza Hittman

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.”
-- Eliza Hittman

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

#Optimistic Quotes #Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.”

“Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?”

“It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.”

“Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.”

Source : "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy". Book by J. S. Bell, 2004.

“If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.”

“When something important is going on, silence is a lie.”

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.”