Joe Carnahan Quotes

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

Joe Carnahan

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• Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Name

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Together
  • Ending

• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Wall
  • Talking
  • Worst

• Most style is not honest enough.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Style
  • Enough
  • Honest

• It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • People
  • Music
  • Today

• Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hate
  • Creative

• If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Money

• As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• Those who desire to be men in truth, and not brutes, having only the appearance and shape of men, must constantly endeavor to reduce the wants of the body, such as eating, love, drinking, anger, and all manners originating in lust and passion; they must feel ashamed of them and set limits to them for themselves.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Desire

• School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • School
  • Stupid

• How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

  

  Jack McDevitt

• Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • May
  • Truth

• I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

• I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • House
  • Door
  • Inspired

• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • Gospel
  • Doctrine

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Change
  • Feel
  • Choose

• I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

  

  Joe Carnahan