Andrey Zvyagintsev Quotes
Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
Quotes to Explore
-
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
-
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
-
My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
-
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
-
It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
-
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
-
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
-
Everything I say is true.
-
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
-
When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
-
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
-
Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
-
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
-
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
-
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
-
The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
-
I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
-
I'm always going to love my father.
-
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
-
All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.
-
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay.
-
Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
