Emma Thompson Quotes
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
-
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
-
I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
-
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
-
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
-
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
-
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
-
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
-
I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
-
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
-
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
-
I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
-
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
-
It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
-
I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
-
I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
-
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.
-
I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.
-
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
-
It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.
-
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
-
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
