Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

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• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Truth
  • Energy

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Healthy
  • Torture

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Promise

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Silly
  • Ruling
  • Paula

• I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • America
  • Write

• Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

  

  Garth Nix
  • You
  • Enough
  • Everything

• She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.

  

  Tad Williams
  • God
  • She
  • Doubt

• ‘Why are pictures like this allowed?’ he suddenly cried. He had stopped in front of a colonial print in which the martyrdom of St Agatha was depicted with all the fervour that incompetence could command.‘It’s only a saint,’ said Lady Peaslake, placidly raising her head.‘How disgusting – and how ugly’‘Yes, very. It’s Roman Catholic.’

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Ugly
  • Catholic

• The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Done
  • Wisdom
  • Transformation

• I was never proud of anything. I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that.

  

  Luise Rainer
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Proud

• Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • Up

• Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Why

• I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Remember

• Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Single

• I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Mother

• I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Sometimes

• It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

  

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Speed