John Frankenheimer Quotes

I really, really love directing films.

John Frankenheimer

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• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Ideas

• I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Choose

• When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Myself

• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Soul

• The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Independence
  • Alternative

• I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Home
  • War
  • Never

• The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

  

  Edmund White
  • Beautiful
  • New York
  • Editors

• Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Baby

• If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Forever

• In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Free

• 'Vanitas vanitatum' has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

  

  Vanity
  • Simple

• The New York Times is busy sucking the teat of the major studios. They twist themselves into a pretzel when Kumar and Schmumar Go to White Castle Part III. They say, 'Oh, the farts are such a statement about American culture! It's such great satire!' It's bullshit. Troma paved the road for farts! But we don't exist.

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • Great
  • American
  • Culture

• I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.

  

  Derek Magyar
  • Flying

• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Feel
  • Shows
  • Weirdo

• The idea that either individuals or organisations are 'too big to fail' or that the tech and start-up sector is somehow different is wrong.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Different

• Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.

  

  Enrico Fermi
  • Important

• Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Newspaper

• As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

  

  David Swing
  • Demand
  • Framework
  • Quotations

• I really, really love directing films.

  

  John Frankenheimer