Art Quote by Pamela Yates Download Open image “I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.” — Pamela Yates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Defenders Filmmaker Human rights Humans Rights
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
