Zach Condon Quotes
It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
-
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
-
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
-
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
-
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
-
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
-
My daughter passed away in 2003.
-
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
-
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
-
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
-
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
-
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
-
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
-
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
-
We all get self-centered.
-
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
-
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
-
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
-
The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
-
“The bigness of the West makes men quiet; they seldom talk unless they have something to say.”
-
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
-
For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.
-
It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'
