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Quotes

Chantal Akerman (1950-2015)

“I am not interested in real time and also not in the dramatic and codified time of cinema that manipulated duration. Let’s say I take ‘my time’.”
Chantal Akerman (1950-2015)

Chantal Akerman in her film Je tu il elle, 1974

Richard O’Brien (1942–)

“Don’t dream it.
“Be it.”
Richard O’Brien (1942–)

Richard O’Brien as Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1976).

Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013)

“I had to learn to do everything because I couldn’t find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.”
Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013)

Photo from the Harryhausen collection.

Sally Wainwright (1963–)

“When people talk about my work, and talk about me writing for women, or strong female characters—it’s made me realise how badly women have been served in the past. I just invented characters I wanted to read about, blissfully unaware that I was doing a feminist thing. But so many female characters are these Airfix kits—little bits put together to make something that’s meant to resemble a woman.”
Sally Wainwright (1963–)

Photographer unidentified.

Norman Corwin (1910–2011)

“There’s really one language in the world: that is the language of responsible conscience and awareness, the worldwide instinct for freedom.”
Norman Corwin (1910–2011)

Photo from Wikipedia.


Lorraine Hansberry (1930-65)

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-65)

Photo by David Attie.

Glynn Turman (1947–)

“Acting is about truths, and the more truths you’re able to tell and share with your audience, the more connection there will be.”
Glynn Turman (1947–)

Photo by Bobby Quillard.

Sarah Polley (1979–)

“I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.”
Sarah Polley (1979–)

Photographer unidentified.