Emmanuelle Bercot quotes

“I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.”
-- Emmanuelle Bercot

Source : "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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“In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].”
-- Emmanuelle Bercot

Source : "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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“"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.”
-- Emmanuelle Bercot

Source : "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”

“Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.”

“I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.”

“Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.”

Source : "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

“Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”

Source : "The Real Problem With Waiting for 'Superman'" by Aaron Swartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”