Nina Menkes quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.”
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“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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“She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”
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