Brian Helgeland Quotes

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

Brian Helgeland

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• One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Period

• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Character
  • House
  • Period

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Model

• I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • Period
  • See

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • World
  • Change
  • Period

• Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Time
  • Mistake

• None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Period
  • Movies
  • Costume

• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Choice

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Period
  • General

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Period

• I feel like relationships are a beautiful thing, period. Relationships can be really beautiful, they can be really hard, they can be really rewarding, or they can be bad relationships where it's really detrimental and hurtful, but that's life, period.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

  

  John B. Larson

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Have you ever had your ass whooped on by a black man before? It hurts!

  

  Quinton Jackson
  • Men
  • Black
  • Hurt

• As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

  

  Brian Helgeland
  • Period