Elia Suleiman Quotes

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

Elia Suleiman

• Psychology
• Films
• Direction
• Popcorn
• Protagonist

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• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Punk

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Important
  • Water

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • She
  • Nature
  • Party

• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Fear
  • Mean
  • Worry

• There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Want
  • Science
  • Project

• If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • You
  • Independent

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Past
  • Action

• True friends stab you in the front.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • True
  • Front

• Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Design
  • Forget
  • Management

• Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Marriage
  • Lose
  • Bank

• The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Whales

• Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,denn das Glück ist immer da.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Help

• It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mountains
  • Shoe
  • Pebble

• Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Happy
  • Newspapers
  • Murdered

• A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Psychology
  • Films
  • Direction