Todd Solondz Quotes

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Todd Solondz

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Eyes
  • Find
  • Face

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Free
  • Faith

• History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • History
  • Looks
  • Complicated

• I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

  

  Allan Carl Newman
  • Time
  • Happy

• There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Groak

• Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

  

  Kanye West
  • Soul
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

  

  J. Allen Boone
  • Job
  • Purpose

• I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

  

  Vance Gilbert
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • World
  • Death
  • Single

• Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Recognition

• Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Distance
  • Changes

• Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Looks
  • Loses

• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fall
  • Taken
  • Wisdom

• Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Learn
  • Actors
  • Communication

• Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Looks
  • Casting