Oren Peli Quotes
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
-
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
-
Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
-
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
-
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
-
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
-
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
-
I don't like controversy.
-
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
-
I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
-
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
-
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
-
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
-
We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
-
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
-
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
-
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
-
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
-
It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
-
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
-
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
