Angelopoulos Quotes & Sayings

My joy is watching people being joyful. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

The Olympic Games are a national cause, and a national cause calls for a nationwide attitude. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.' — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

The dictatorship is embodied in the formal structure of the film (Days of 36). Imposed silence was one of the conditions under which we worked. The film is... made in such a way that the spectator realizes that censorship is involved. — Theodoros Angelopoulos

He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki