John Knoll Quotes

You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.

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• A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Security

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Opinion
  • Personal
  • Left

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Enough
  • Year

• I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Leader
  • Gang
  • Sell

• Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Challenge

• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Would

• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Suffering
  • Learn
  • Others

• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  

  Quintilian
  • Men
  • Money
  • Change

• By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Wish

• I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up

• Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hunting

• Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Ifs

• Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

  

  William Golding
  • Language
  • Laughter

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Laughing

• And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • History
  • End
  • Murder

• You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.

  

  John Knoll