Jenna Blum Quotes
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
Quotes to Explore
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties. Welcome to my world.
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I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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I am inspired by the kind of films Raj Kumar Gupta and Imtiaz Ali make.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
