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- My life is essentially not so unique. On some deeper levels we feel the same, we know the same things. Therefore if I show my…
- I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or…
- In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to…
- I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide