Brian Selznick Quotes

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

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• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  

  Washington Irving
  • True
  • Enthusiasm
  • Eloquence

• With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Beginning
  • Spiritual
  • View

• I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Know
  • City
  • Write

• When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • End

• Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Small
  • Imagination

• I just love dancing.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Love
  • Just
  • Dancing

• I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Different
  • Seen
  • Many

• The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Good
  • Art
  • Now

• I've made a lot of game-winners.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Made
  • Lot

• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Time
  • English
  • Said

• I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movie
  • First
  • Wrote

• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Progress
  • Ignore
  • Fail

• I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Ending

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Art
  • Disappointment

• He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

  

  Jack London
  • Strong
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Abiding in heaven was he, my desire, Against the eagle, against the fear of the unskilful. I am a bard, and I am a harper, I am a piper, and I am a crowder. Of seven score musicians the very great enchanter.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Desire

• I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.

  

  Nonie Darwish
  • Children
  • Teaching
  • Israel

• I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Reading
  • Moral

• From a climbing standpoint, gravity is the adversary. You and your fellow humans are striving together to get to the same place at the same time. And I think that's a really good way for humans to interact.

  

  Conrad Anker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

  

  Brian Selznick