Representation

“The Freedom Charter is the only historic document that we have where the people have registered their voice and their aspirations.”

“Ignore me if I’m not good at what I do but please don’t ignore me when I’ve got something to say.”

“If I really want to break out of the Chinese community, I'll do it with Chinese music.”

“I meant to represent her, as a human being, loving virtue while enslaved by passion.”

“نعتبر أنفسنا جريدة الوطن العربي في لبنان وصوت الناس”

“Nunca la cámara es objetiva.”

“South Africa was a strange place. Everyone was totally oblivious to the need to express the plight of the black people.”

“They are the ones that will tell you what the story is, not you.”

“The songs are really representative of our way of life.”

“E o neo-realismo fez o quê? É um cinema com o equipamento mínimo possível, feito na rua, com o dinheirinho lá do estúdio e com o próprio povo como ator.”

“We Chinese should build and own a Chinese-based media network. We should express our voice through our own stance and values.”

“I don't know why I film but I am inhabited by a whole people and I must bear witness to my epoch.”

“Sus escenas vividas parecen como trazadas por mano maestra; están bien tipificadas y son trasunto fiel de la realidad de nuestra vida provinciana.”

“El arte está ahí como un espejo, pero si nadie llega a verse frente a él, no pasa nada.”

“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

“It’s about examining the events of that particular day, and I believe it is being done in a brutally accurate way.”

“The issue is not freeing ourselves from representation.”

“We are a democracy, a democratic republic that says that every voice should be heard to set the future.”