Kartemquin Films Quotes & Sayings

For most of my films, I've had to go out and start shooting before I could get the rest of the funding. That was the case with 'Hoop Dreams,' 'Stevie' and 'The Interrupters:' We started them quietly out of Kartemquin Films, only really going to funders once we had something to show and a firm idea of what the film might be. — Steve James

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. — Xun Zi

Glory's like a bowling ball. She gets picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter, and yet she still comes back. — Suzanne Wright

Well, we were never coming back to Fox ... that was clear. — Will Arnett

I didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then. — Darnell Lamont Walker

[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us? — Irvine Welsh

There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you ... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles. — Terence McKenna

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more. — Wendy Cope

Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. — Milan Kundera

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. — David Lloyd-Jones

There was an abyss between myself and my love. I could not interpret the voiding distance. I supposed later that my attempts at interpretation of the abyss between myself and my love, or otherwise put, my love and my love, were themselves partially successful interpretive gestures.
I also realized that the abyss came about on account of the very account that I was loving. I assumed that interpretation would inscribe a course for the two things, my love and my love, to seek out and find each other. — Brandon Brown

I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting. — Gus Van Sant

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. — Al Sharpton