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b. 1955
Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya (née Diaz; March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines.
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I hope to have a body of work on women, children and religion.
This time, let's learn from our mistakes.
It takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of humility, I think.
Friendship. Before, during, and after [marriage]
If I can love one person in a small way everyday, tama na sa akin ‘yun kaya hindi ako nafu-frustrate (that's good enough for me, that why I don't become frustrated).
Love in all its forms. You tend to take love for granted. We don't show it enough. And most of the time it's because we don't have time enough.
It's for the country! And this is the first time that I'm asked to do a film that's for the country! It's not my film!
I think so. It's not mine. It's God’s. It's for everybody. Or else, I wouldn't be teaching, if I don't want to share myself.
Together, let us dream of peace and let us each waking day be an occasion to say yes….., let us dream, let us hope, let us act together.
I'm a nature lover so the moment you’re in touch with nature, and you love cooperating with nature and surrendering yourself to the forces of nature, you already have an advantage. You realize you are not the center of the world. You are not always in control.
I have a different kind of fight. I don’t really fight cancer. I befriended it. Ang fight, is una, fear (The fight is, first, against fear).
To love art is to embrace poverty and to be unafraid of the uncertainty of an artist’s lifestyle, to sacrifice security, material wealth, regular family, to become a dedicated filmmaker, a public servant at the beck and call of the artist as a citizen.
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