“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
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British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990Related quotes
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Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I'm not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you've got time and sequences. You've got dialogue. You've got music. You've got sound effects. You have so many tools. And so you can express a feeling and a thought that can't be conveyed any other way. It's a magical medium.
For me, it's so beautiful to think about these pictures and sounds flowing together in time and in sequence, making something that can be done only through cinema. It's not just words or music — it's a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn't exist before. It's telling stories. It's devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film.
“Each of you is perfect the way you are… and you can use a little improvement.”
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary