Morten Tyldum Quotes
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
-
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
-
Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
-
When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
-
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
-
I have a strong affinity for animals.
-
What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
-
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
-
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
-
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
-
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
-
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
-
There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
-
I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
-
Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.
-
When you give, you receive.
-
If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
-
'A Course in Miracles' has been one of my great teachers. I still study 'The Course' daily. It's like a gift that keeps on giving.
-
The attack on the transgender troops - disgusting, disgraceful, outrageous. It's just endless. And then you try to do your day job of finding good bipartisan work across the aisle... You're doing both all the time. I guess I would describe it as intense. Everything is very intense.
-
Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
-
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
-
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
-
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
