Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You’re not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.