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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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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.
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I just love dancing.
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I have seen many ladies displaying different styles and different styles displaying ladies.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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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.
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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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.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.
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When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
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Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
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We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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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.
