Bong Joon-ho Quotes

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Sun

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Change

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Light
  • See
  • Darkness

• Let's just focus on unity and love.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Focus
  • Unity

• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Wishes

• Today 29-9-34 ion the garden, rockery side, looking up to the house where Bone was working, sky bluish, very gentle, I looked without theories or self consciousness. This happens very seldom, though I can prolong the delight if I prevent my engines from restarting.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Up
  • Today
  • House

• I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Up
  • Light
  • Amazing

• I also got to know Roger Corman a bit while we were on location in Mendocino. And then, subsequently, a woman who also worked on The Dunwich Horror named Tamara Asseyev and I teamed up and co-produced a picture that I wrote and directed, called Sweet Kill, that Roger Corman's then-new company distributed.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Knows

• He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.

  

  Edward Everett Hale
  • Country

• The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
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