Dominick Dunne Quotes
I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
-
We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
-
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
-
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
-
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
-
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
-
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
-
I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
-
The script is just a blueprint.
-
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
-
Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.
-
I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
-
I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
-
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
-
There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
-
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
-
I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
-
I sucked in school.
-
Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
-
I didn't want my daughter to grow up in that intense attention - wherever we went, we'd get paparazzi. There are bigger, better superstars in America, so I thought, 'I'll go there for a quick holiday, and relax.' And my holiday just turned into me loving it and wanting to stay there longer and longer.
-
I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
