A Quote by Sarah Gavron
It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.
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People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.
I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!
And what my father represented, my mother represented through her life, what I hope that I'm always trying to do is always bring people together.
The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.
People always want to get behind the image on the screen, and I'm not sure there is one. I don't put on an act.
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
I get it that the media is going to show the worst part, because that's the part that people want to see. But they have not represented Israel or Palestine, however people want to call it, they haven't represented it well at all. Go to the beach! You won't know this place from California.
I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.
I love that brown people are being more and more represented on screen.
Most shows get dumped by the networks, do a couple of years in syndication, then they're in the vault. 'Mission: Impossible' has never been off the screen.
When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The task of the coming city is not essentially different: its mission is to put the highest concerns of man at the center of all his activities.
I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.
I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.
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