Damian Pettigrew quotes
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“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.”
-- Damian PettigrewSource : The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.
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“I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.”
-- Damian PettigrewSource : Le Parisien, May, 2003.
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“A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.”
-- Damian PettigrewSource : Le Parisien, May, 2003.
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“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
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“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
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“Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.”
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