Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
-
I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
-
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
-
I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
-
The director had come to Madrid to court me.
-
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
-
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
-
I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
-
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
-
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
-
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
-
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
-
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
-
Life started getting good when I started making money.
-
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
-
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
-
Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
-
Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?
-
I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
-
The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities
-
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
