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

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• 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

• Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Why
  • May
  • Best

• 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

• It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Year

• You know, people really want to hear about the issues.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Issues
  • Hear

• Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Actors

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

  

  Joe Russo