Benjamin Stone Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
-
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
-
I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
-
I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
-
'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
-
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
-
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
-
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
-
When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
-
The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
-
I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
-
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
-
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
-
I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
-
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
-
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
-
You realize mortality is everywhere.
-
As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
-
My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
-
At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
-
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
-
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating
-
I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.
-
Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.
