David Furnish Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
-
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
-
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
-
I am a just man.
-
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
-
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
-
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
-
In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
-
I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
-
We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
-
Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
-
Leaks are always bad news.
-
There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
-
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
-
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
-
The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
-
The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.
-
Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.
-
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
-
People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.
