Oren Peli Quotes
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am who I am.
-
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
-
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
-
We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
-
When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
-
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
-
All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
-
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
-
As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
-
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
-
I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
-
Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
-
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
-
I had an amazing childhood.
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
-
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
-
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
-
I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
-
It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
-
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
-
Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
-
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
-
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
