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"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."
"Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation."
"At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy."
"So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time"
"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."
"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is."
"A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance."
"I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle."
"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you."
"So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse."
"That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything."
"The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events."
"A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers."
"We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse."
"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten."
"We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history."
"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves."
"Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration."
"Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling."
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
