I get very close to people when I’m shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob.
ABIGAIL DISNEYI knew he wouldn’t be able to close his eyes to it.
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That’s actually a massive step away from his original position, and he’s taking a lot of heat in his world just for being my friend, just for hanging around with me.
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You can’t worship the image or the Crucifix itself. You have to worship God.
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When you worship an idol, you’re substituting a thing for the ultimate.
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Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship.
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Without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse.
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You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
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He has committed everything he’s had to it. If in fact he believes that every human life was sacred, I knew that if he had his conscious awakened
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You probably couldn’t have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
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A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
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These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context.
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It’s an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.
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Then I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other.
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When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on.
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I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.
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Conservative values aren’t really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is
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I’ve taken it from feminist friends, and I’ve taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that’s exactly where we want to be.
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Then it’s too late! Follow your gut. That’s hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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I knew he wouldn’t be able to close his eyes to it.
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People just don’t get as engaged in that kind of documentary – they don’t fall in love, they don’t cry, they don’t forget who they are, they don’t ride with you.
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There’s a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information.
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As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.
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We brought to the garden at Rob’s office and just sat and watched what unfolded.
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We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.
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I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.
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I get very close to people when I’m shooting them.
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I worry that people will think that I have done what I’ve done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I’m just as scared and lonely as anyone else!
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