Joe Russo Quotes
We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
-
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
-
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
-
I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
-
Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
-
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
-
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
-
For me, family has always come first.
-
It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
-
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
-
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
-
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
-
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
-
My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
-
'Punch-Drunk Love' is my favorite movie.
-
And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.
-
Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.
-
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
-
I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.
-
We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.
