Jennifer Lynch Quotes
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
-
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
-
I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
-
'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
-
We're all working together; that's the secret.
-
You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
-
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
-
There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
-
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
-
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
-
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
-
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
-
I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
-
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
-
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
-
It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
-
I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
-
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
-
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.
-
I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.
-
There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
-
I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.
-
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
