Cate Shortland Quotes
I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
-
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
-
She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
-
My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
-
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
-
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
-
Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
-
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
-
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
-
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
-
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
-
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
-
Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
-
I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
-
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
-
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
-
I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
-
Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
-
The divinely talented Adam Arkin. So underrated. Every time I do a piece and they go, 'You know, you need a husband in this,' I ask, 'Can Adam Arkin do it?'
-
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
-
I'm from New York, I'm 53, I have my moments when I'm a nice guy, and more frequently I have my moments where I'm a middle-aged aggravated person. For years I was always the nice guy, so in life I had to pretend to be the nice guy.
-
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
-
One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.
-
I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
