- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a great silver lining to the 45th presidency, which is, it's hard to swallow that he is existing, which gives us the silver lining, which is a great uncovering of the historical disenfranchisement and marginalization of so many people in this country for so long.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely think it is more acceptable for people who were assigned female at birth to dress in a typically gender non-conforming way. There was a time when people of all genders had long hair and anyone who wanted to wore jewelry - it was more a sign of status than a sign of femininity, per se.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never realised 'The Return' would take so long to make - it was a very tough 'political experience,' and the post production in L.A. seemed to go on forever.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.
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- Nov 07, 2020