"Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with."

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"Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with."

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Gratitude, Life, Identity

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Family, Gossip

"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Family, Fear, Joy, Motherhood, Love

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Family, Identity, People, Life

"A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Family, Mother, Love, Care, Nurturing

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Family, Quarrels, Rules, Skin

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Family, Aging, Responsibility, Hope

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence."

Family

"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

Sense

"I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project."

Work

"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."

Work

"The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes."

People

"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."

Experience

"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope."

Family

"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."

Values

"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image."

Home

"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum."

Mind