Rachel Joyce Quotes
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
Quotes to Explore
-
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
-
For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
-
The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
-
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
-
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
-
I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
-
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
-
Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
-
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
-
The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
-
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
-
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
-
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
-
One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
-
Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.
-
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
-
I don't want to hear about my death.
-
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
-
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.
-
Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
-
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
-
You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
-
With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that's a bonus.
-
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
