Sergei Eisenstein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.
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The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.
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I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
