Richard Grossman Quotes
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
-
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
-
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-
I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
-
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
-
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
-
I love working in New York.
-
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
-
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
-
I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
-
It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
-
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
-
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
-
There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
-
One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.
-
Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
-
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?
-
Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
-
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
-
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
-
The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.
