Jonathan Glazer Quotes

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Today
  • Fight

• I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I love people, and the hustle.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Love
  • Hustle

• What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

  

  Ed Smith
  • Problem
  • Wrong
  • His

• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • May
  • You

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Drama

• I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.

  

  Jim Courier
  • Feeling
  • Player
  • Tennis

• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wish

• Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Up
  • Live
  • Women

• When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Able
  • Worst
  • Illness

• I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

  

  Jonathan Glazer
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