Max von Sydow Quotes

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Max von Sydow

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• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• And when people give me their word, I listen to them.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Me
  • Word

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Remember
  • Air
  • Movement

• 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.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Life
  • May
  • Earth

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Love
  • History

• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • You
  • Hands
  • Clock

• I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Speculation

• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Fashion
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Happy
  • Creative
  • Working

• You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Start

• 'If you run before God, you cannot run after God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God

• Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

  

  Edward Carey
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Dark

• My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Good

• All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them to be more creative. That's the case with VR.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Obstacles

• Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It is resistant to old patterns. It is sticky, uncomfortable, agitating, and difficult. But it is liberating and life giving and spirit enriching. It changes your life and the lives of everyone who joins you on your journey. And then, quite unexpectedly, you realize you are splashing hope into the lives of others because you have an intimate love relationship with the Source of hope.

  

  Carol Kent
  • Hope
  • Choices
  • Journey

• Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Important

• Filming is repetition and many takes.

  

  Max von Sydow