John Milius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
-
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
-
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
-
I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
-
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
-
My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
-
When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
-
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
-
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
-
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
-
I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
-
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
-
Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
-
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-
I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
-
I wasn't a great background singer.
-
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
-
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
-
I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
-
I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
-
My aunt made stuff; my mom was creative, so I was surrounded by that. When I moved to England, it was '75, and everything was happening. My whole teenage life is England, glam rock and David Bowie and Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop, all that stuff.
-
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
-
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
