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.
-
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
-
When they raise your hand, Oh my God, the feeling is unbelievable.
-
Nights are like the bottom of somewhere, a kind of seabed. As for the days, they have a cunning of their own.
-
My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
-
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
-
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.
