Matthew Heineman Quotes
Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
Quotes to Explore
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
-
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
-
Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
-
Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
-
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
-
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
-
Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
-
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
-
Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
-
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
-
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
-
In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
-
Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.
-
Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
-
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
-
Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
-
Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
