As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnRead
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
Interpretation
The quote reflects the power of cinema to uplift and bring joy to people's lives.
Audrey Hepburn shares her perspective on how her films represent a nostalgic era of cinema that offered escapism and beauty. She highlights the profound impact movies can have on individuals when they are struggling, demonstrating the importance of art in providing comfort and joy during difficult times.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a film festival to highlight the emotional impact of movies.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.
The next step in sculpture is motion.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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