Carl Theodor Dreyer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
-
The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
-
I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
-
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
-
I am passionate about human rights.
-
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
-
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
-
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
-
Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
-
For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
-
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
-
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
-
Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
-
Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
-
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
-
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
-
I'm a human being, and I get sick.
-
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
-
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
-
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
-
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
-
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
-
Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.
