Jacques Rivette Quotes

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Jacques Rivette

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• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Virtue
  • Roots
  • Fruit

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Work
  • Passion

• Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Together
  • Community
  • Unique

• What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

  

  Kal Penn
  • World
  • Space
  • Like

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  

  Gary North
  • World
  • God
  • Religion

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Truth
  • Only
  • Does

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

  

  Warren Spector
  • History
  • Never
  • Spirit

• I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Stop
  • Working
  • About

• Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Know
  • Like
  • Generation

• My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid was Shiite, and you would whisper, 'Hey,' or you would see someone at the mosque, and you'd be like, 'Hey, that kid's Shiite!' There was a lot of tension, a lot of violence in Karachi between Shiites and Sunnis.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • School
  • Mom
  • Violence

• I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  

  John Cleese
  • People
  • Long
  • Friends

• 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • Real
  • Power

• The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Harmony
  • Nations
  • Instinct

• Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

  

  Jacques Rivette