Philippe Petit Quotes

I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.

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• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Knows

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Well
  • University
  • Graduate

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Movies

• I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Audience

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Spring
  • New York
  • Down

• I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Live
  • Child
  • Ethiopia

• For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.

  

  Xenophon
  • Good
  • Believe
  • May

• But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Peace
  • Independence
  • Africa

• Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

  

  James Spader
  • Work
  • Different

• Making the movie Babe opened my eyes to the intelligence and the inquisitive personalities of pigs. These highly social animals possess an amazing capacity for love, joy and sorrow that makes them remarkably similar to our beloved canine and feline friends.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Friends
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • True
  • Movie

• I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.

  

  Philippe Petit
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