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For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.
“For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.”
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“For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.”
“I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.”
“There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon.”
“Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.”
“I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.”
“When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'”
“I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.”
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”
“The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.”
“I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.”
“If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.”
“In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.”