Richard L. Evans Quotes
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
