Jon Favreau Quotes
I want to make sure everyone's having a good time because when I ask you to come to my movie, I'm throwing a party for you. I want you to enjoy it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
-
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
-
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.
-
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
-
One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
-
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
-
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
-
I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
-
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
-
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
-
Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
-
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
-
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
-
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
-
I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
-
One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
-
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
-
People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
-
When I was younger, I lived on Hawai'i, in the small town of Kohala. It was beautiful there! There were the trees and rolling green hills. It was beautiful and quaint, but at the same time, I always wanted to just venture out.
-
I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
-
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.
-
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
-
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.
-
I want to make sure everyone's having a good time because when I ask you to come to my movie, I'm throwing a party for you. I want you to enjoy it.
