Joe Wright Quotes

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Political
  • Leadership

• Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Just

• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Always
  • Priest

• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Born
  • Paris

• Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Great
  • Line
  • Admiration

• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Why
  • True

• I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Home
  • Night
  • Man

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Kids
  • Beautiful
  • Yourself

• Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • Serious
  • Studio

• I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

  

  Babette March
  • Up
  • Live
  • Taken

• A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • God
  • Small

• 'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Lies

• Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Girl
  • Question

• In Tamil, the actors have to take care of themselves quite well and that is something I am all set to be serious about.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Serious

• In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Army
  • Year

• I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

  

  Danny Glover
  • Family
  • Small
  • Community

• Some people are good at performing in front of people like that, but I'm uncomfortable at it. I think maybe that's the difference between acting and being a performer. I don't think I'm a natural performer.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Crazy
  • Insane

• I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

  

  Joe Wright