I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.
In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
Numerous US. Government documents exist which indicate that these objects are real and have been involved with observing Earth for several decades.
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.
A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.
Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.
Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story.
The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.
Saigon, U. S. A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.
When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U. N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.
The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.
Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.
