Joe Carnahan Quotes
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
Quotes to Explore
-
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
-
I don't miss acting at all.
-
If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
-
I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
-
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
-
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
-
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
-
Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
-
It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
-
Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
-
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
-
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
-
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
-
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
-
I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
-
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
-
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
-
I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
-
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford.
-
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.
-
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional and beautiful being, as a sort of marvellous divinity, and, in spite of myself, surmounting my will and my reason, I feel rising, from the depths of my being, toward this rich man, who is very often an imbecile, and sometimes a murderer, something like an incense of admiration. Is it not stupid? And why? Why?
-
An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
-
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
-
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
