David Yates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
-
Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
-
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
-
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
-
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
-
I buy when other people are selling.
-
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
-
People want you to fail.
-
The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
-
In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
-
A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
-
I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
-
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
-
Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
-
My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
-
I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
-
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
-
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
-
I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious - like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I've definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.
-
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.
-
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
