Direct Approach quotes

  • I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.
    -- Jurgen Teller

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  • Today I sat before the cliff Until the mist and rainbows disappeared I followed the emerald stream Explored a thousand tiers of green cliffs In the morning my spirit rests among white clouds At night a bright moon floats in the sky I am free of the busy world There is not a doubt in my heart or a worry to disturb my mind

  • Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

  • We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

  • Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

  • I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

  • A cat is nobody's fool.

  • Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watching†and waiting for us.

  • I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

  • What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

  • Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...