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Bille August

"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."

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"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."

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Asa Don Brown

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

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Asa Don Brown

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

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Asa Don Brown

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

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Asa Don Brown

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

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Asa Don Brown

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

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Asa Don Brown

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

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Asa Don Brown

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

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Asa Don Brown

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

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Asa Don Brown

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."

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Asa Don Brown

"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."

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Bille August
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."

Life

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Bille August
"I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time."

Life

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Bille August
"She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film."

People

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Bille August
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."

Movies

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Bille August
"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."

Beginning

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Bille August
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."

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Bille August
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."

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Bille August
"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."

Finance

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Bille August
"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

Film

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Bille August
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."

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