Brad Anderson Quotes
It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.
Quotes to Explore
-
Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
-
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
-
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
-
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
-
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
-
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
-
I don't care about revenues.
-
Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
-
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
-
ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
-
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
-
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
-
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
-
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
-
I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
-
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
-
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
-
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
-
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
-
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
-
When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
-
Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
-
It's such a great city, visually. You can't get that kind of look in Canada that you can get in Boston: the old-brick historical buildings, the winding streets, the old but funky neighborhoods like Southie and Somerville. You can't get that elsewhere. It's a very unique place in that way.
