Michael Winterbottom Quotes

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.

Michael Winterbottom

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• Girlfriend
• London
• Individuals

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• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Success

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Music
  • Father
  • Parents

• I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Live
  • Want

• I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Great
  • Violence

• Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Same
  • Say
  • Psychology

• Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Same
  • Page

• Such taxes upon the necessaries of life, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth and the inclemency of the heavens; and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been most generally imposed. No other countries could support so great a disorder.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.

  

  Claire Foy
  • People
  • Amazing

• I love being with my family and just being a regular person.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Family

• Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Imagination
  • Lies

• I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • Business
  • Death
  • Kiss

• Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.'

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Drama
  • Stress

• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • Community
  • Commitment

• Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Music

• ‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Changes
  • Journalism
  • Physics

• When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Want
  • Husband

• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Society
  • City
  • Mean

• We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Society
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Market
  • Net

• If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Society
  • Girlfriend
  • London