Quotes by Directors - Page 39

Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!
Stephen King
Natürlich muss die Wahrheit im Kampf mit der Unwahrheit geschrieben werden und sie darf nicht etwas Allgemeines, Hohes, Vieldeutiges sein. Von dieser allgemeinen, hohen, vieldeutigen Art ist ja gerade die Unwahrheit. Wenn von einem gesagt wird, er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, so haben zunächst einige oder viele oder einer etwas anderes gesagt, eine Lüge oder etwas Allgemeines, aber er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, etwas Praktisches, Tatsächliches, Unleugbares, das, um was es sich handelte.
Bertolt Brecht
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
but even the facts do not always tell the truth
Paul Auster
She's my daughter. She's my sister.
Robert Towne
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
Rachel Ward
You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show.
Stephen King
People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.
Rachel Ward
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
Rachel Ward
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
Alan Ball
Words have weight.
Stephen King
And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
Rachel Ward
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
Bruce Lee
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
Stephen King
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.
Emilio Estevez
The truth of the story lies in the details.
Paul Auster
It's only words... unless they're true.
David Mamet
If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?
Gene Wilder
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
Stephen King
When everything gets answered, it's fake.
Sean Penn
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
Joss Whedon
Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.
Jean-Claude Carrière
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
Noël Coward
În clipa când ți se impune să nu te gândești la un lucru, te vei gândi doar la el, obsesiv. Interdicția devine obligație.
Jean-Claude Carrière
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.
Paul Auster
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
Stephen King
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
Stephen King
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
Bruce Lee
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
Woody Allen
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Orson Welles
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.
Stephen King
The only safe thing is to take a chance.
Elaine May
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
Stephen King
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee
Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.
Stephen King
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Woody Allen
Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster
Stephen King
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
Stephen King
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
Woody Allen
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen
I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.
Marjane Satrapi
As we all know, blinking lights means science.
Joss Whedon
I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets...
Joss Whedon
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
Stephen King
Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.
Joss Whedon
Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?
Marti Noxon
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
Nora Ephron
I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak.
Woody Allen
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
Joss Whedon
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Clint Eastwood
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
Lena Dunham
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
Nora Ephron
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
Ben Elton
There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.
Joss Whedon
My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Woody Allen
Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.
Woody Allen
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Woody Allen