Mark Romanek Quotes

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.

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• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Love Is

• The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Because
  • Guess
  • Fascination

• I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon my love for you is forever yoko ono October 9th 2007

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Light
  • Forever
  • October

• No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Job
  • Sleep

• Suffering is admittedly one of the central problems of human existence; but this is because we have a suspicion that it is all for nothing. If we had a certainty about meaning, the suffering would be bearable. With no certainty of meaning, even comfort begins to feel futile.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Suffering

• I'd rather be at home with Ray,I ain't got seventy daysCause there's nothing,There's nothing you can teach meThat I can't learn from Mr Hathaway.I didn't get a lot in classBut I know it don't come in a shot glass.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Home

• I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Good
  • Light
  • Action

• One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

  

  Matthew Hayden
  • Mind
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Passion
  • Listening

• I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Sorry
  • Catholic

• Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Deep

• And weeping fast as she had breathJanet implored us, 'Wake her from her sleep!'And would not be instructed in how deepWas the forgetful kingdom of death.

  

  John Crowe Ransom
  • She
  • Death
  • Sleep

• For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Existence
  • Generation
  • Creatures

• We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Reality
  • Simple
  • Universe

• I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.

  

  Mark Romanek