Joe Russo Quotes

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

Joe Russo

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• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Reason

• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Chance
  • Direct
  • Tone

• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Peace
  • Making
  • Bread

• Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • School
  • Friends

• After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Weird
  • Situation
  • Choice

• Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Start
  • Early

• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Moving
  • Direction
  • Turn

• The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Power
  • American
  • America

• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Boy
  • Wrestling
  • Skills

• I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • Been
  • Scientific
  • Professor

• Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • World
  • Nature
  • Winning

• The outlaw is the conscious warrior who makes use of the aggression to break down the walls, barriers, and boundaries that artificially separate and alienate.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Warrior

• You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I think every player dreams to be No. 1 at some point.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Player

• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Embrace

• The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Influence
  • The Beatles
  • Explosion

• One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Actors
  • Favourite
  • Peter Lorre

• We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

  

  Joe Russo