Lawrence Jordan Professions : FilmmakerBorn : 1934 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Lawrence Jordan It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day. Lawrence Jordan victimrealitypeople I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast. Lawrence Jordan eastpeoplethinking I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people in the letters and science department that understand it quite well and the students go there if they want to understand what this term that is being bandied about is all about, but I've never understood it. Lawrence Jordan meanartschool It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art historically. My job is to teach the creative process and let the chips fall where they may and people can then come along and form their opinions as to whether you fall into this genre or that genre. Lawrence Jordan jobsartfall Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to be fearless. You have to be confident, and if you start getting thrown by criticism or esthetic terminology, you're going to fall off the balance beam and hit your head and do some injury. Lawrence Jordan artistathletefall I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners. Lawrence Jordan distancegiving-upart Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmakerAll Authors
