Lawrence Bender quotes
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“Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!”
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“Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.”
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“Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.”
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“Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.”
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“I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.”
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“Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.”
-- Lawrence BenderSource : "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.
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“In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.”
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“I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.”
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“To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.”
-- Lawrence BenderSource : "America’s Young Minds: A Neglected Renewable Resource" by Lawrence Bender, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.
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“Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.”
-- Lawrence BenderSource : "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.
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“If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.”
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“The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.”
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“What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.”
-- Lawrence BenderSource : "On a Bender". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. March 1, 1998.
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