Bill Forsyth Quotes

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Bill Forsyth

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Language
  • Matter

• There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Evil
  • Series
  • Lucas

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Eyes

• It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Women
  • True
  • Paris

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Time
  • Change
  • Coming

• And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Now
  • Getting
  • Ever

• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Energy
  • City
  • New York

• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • World
  • Man
  • Wish

• Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Film
  • Working
  • Exciting

• I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Work
  • Career
  • Politics

• I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Die

• Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Life
  • Done
  • Comedy

• This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Political

• I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Good
  • Music

• I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

  

  Bill Forsyth