Jan de Bont Quotes
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
-
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
-
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
-
Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.
-
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
-
In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
-
There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
-
The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
-
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
-
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.
-
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
-
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
-
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
-
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
-
I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.
-
Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
-
Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
-
We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
-
I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
-
We talk of unsophisticated nature-I should like to know where it is to be found.
-
Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
-
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
-
The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
-
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
