Quotes by Directors - Page 13

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just play-ground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.
Stephen King
I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.
Stephen King
She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.
Stephen King
Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.
Stephen King
I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.
Paul Auster
Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.
Stephen King
A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.
Stephen King
And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.
Paul Auster
If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.
David Mamet
I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.
Peter Hedges
Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.
Stephen King
The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.
Stephen King
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles
Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
Stephen King
May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.
Stephen King
Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on
Dean Cavanagh
One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey.
Stephen King
It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.
Yukio Mishima
Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.
Stephen King
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
Henning Mankell
Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.
Bruce Robinson
Maybe that's what Hell is, in the end. All of your wrongful shit played out there in front of you while you're being pumped from behind by someone you've hurt. That you've screwed over in life. Or worse, worse still...some person who doesn't really love you anymore. No one to ever look at again, make contact with. Just you being fucked as your life splashes out across this big headboard in the Devil's bedroom. Maybe. Even if that's not it, even if Hell is all fire and sulfur and that sort of thing, it couldn't be much worse than that.
Neil LaBute
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
Yukio Mishima
I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?
Stephen King
With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.
Ben Elton
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
Stephen King
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
Aaron Sorkin
Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
Stephen King
The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans
Dean Cavanagh
As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates
Dean Cavanagh
It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.
Aaron Sorkin
The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)
Tina Packer
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
Marjane Satrapi
Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
Joss Whedon
How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story...
Stephen King
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
Stephen King
The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.
Stephen King
There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
Aaron Sorkin
There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.
Natasha Tsakos
When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.
Yukio Mishima
The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.
Stephen King
The best sleep imaginable is sleeping in your dreams
Dean Cavanagh
Sleep: the breakfast of champions
Dean Cavanagh
For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?
Lena Dunham
For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death
Dean Cavanagh
Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.
Stephen King
I devised a test.I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I'd turn it off and on - sometimes for millisecond - and she never failed me. Each time it was off, she's move and mutter - each time it was on, she'd sleep.By the time the headlights from Amy's Nova turned into our driveway, my suspicion had been confirmed. My mother has a more intimate, connected relationship with this television than she has ever had with me.
Peter Hedges
..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.
Jeff Anderson
Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.
Stephen King
Resolution demands a sacrifice.
Stephen King
Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.
Stephen King
I want to make sure I remember what real ugly is. I might want to tell my grandchildren someday.
Stephen King
Some dark Presence watching by my bed,The awful image of a nameless dread ―
William Marshall
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
Stephen King
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.
Stephen King
Go then, there are other worlds than these.
Stephen King
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
Stephen King
Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.
Stephen King
The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.
Stephen King
If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.
Amjad Khan