Nigel Kneale Quotes
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I do not seek. I find.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
