Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
Quotes to Explore
-
As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
-
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
-
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
-
I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
-
Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
-
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
-
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
-
Our true nationality is mankind.
-
Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
-
Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
-
Water really does great things for my skin.
-
When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
-
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
-
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
-
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
-
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.
-
Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.
-
I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
-
I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
-
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
