Jehane Noujaim Quotes
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
-
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
-
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
-
You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
-
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
-
I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
-
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
-
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
-
I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
-
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
-
Actors don't have real value.
-
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
-
Time was God's first creation.
-
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
-
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
-
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
-
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
-
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
-
For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
-
Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60.
-
The way I see it, Messi is the best player in history. He is the one who changes the course of games; he's the best. There is no comparison in my view; he's the world number one and by a margin.
-
Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.
-
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
-
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
