Joel Silver Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
-
What really matters is what's on the inside.
-
The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
-
People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
-
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
-
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
-
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
-
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
-
Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
-
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
-
Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
-
I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
-
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
-
Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
-
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
-
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
-
I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.
-
I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.
-
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
-
Ugly Betty' has definitely helped me cope with issues I would have never been able to cope with if I wasn't a part of a show that has such unique characters.
-
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
-
Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.
