Michael Winterbottom Quotes

You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

Michael Winterbottom

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• Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Certain
  • Vampire
  • Almost

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Just
  • Point
  • Almost

• On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Look
  • Director

• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Know
  • Almost

• To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Talk
  • Almost
  • Idle

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Open
  • Almost
  • Hacking

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Classic
  • Cheesy

• A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Literature
  • Process
  • Script

• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Tired
  • Almost
  • Knee

• It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Day
  • Impossible
  • Almost

• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Movie
  • Understood
  • Script

• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Long
  • You
  • Almost

• Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • House
  • Stories
  • Script

• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Script
  • Producers
  • Jonathan Harker

• The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Always
  • Environment
  • Blues

• We’re kissing again, bathed in the light of the streetlamp overhead and the constellations we have yet to name below us. We’re writing our own script. And the light we’re going to build together will drown out every million-year-old star that insists we cannot be.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Own

• Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.

  

  Deepa Mehta
  • Films
  • Script
  • Influenced

• I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Money
  • Way
  • Nice

• While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Eye

• You can almost take the book and use it as a script.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Script
  • Almost