Michael Patrick Jann Quotes

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Michael Patrick Jann

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Job

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Romantic

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Free
  • Taken

• The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Done
  • Health

• For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Women
  • Children
  • Experience

• It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Work
  • Way

• You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wish
  • Chess

• Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • World
  • Home
  • Reality

• Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Free
  • Path
  • Unique

• We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Revolution
  • Develop
  • Challenged

• The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Happy
  • Abstract

• No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

  

  Josh Groban
  • Feelings
  • Circumstances
  • Emotions

• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Purpose
  • Interested
  • Praise

• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  

  Michael Patrick Jann
  • Feelings
  • Directors
  • Cameras