Brett Morgen Quotes

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

Brett Morgen

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• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Cope

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Same

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Water

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• Golf and dating don't mix.

  

  Larry David
  • Golf
  • Dating
  • Mix

• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Marine
  • Recruit
  • San Diego

• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sex

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Doing

• 'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Ideas
  • Parenting

• The whole system of society tells you what to do.

  

  Barry White
  • Society
  • You
  • Whole

• I'm certainly not worried about the play-calling, ... I know we can move the ball. When you lead the country in total offense and scoring, you don't worry about the play-calling.

  

  Bobby Petrino
  • Move
  • Ball
  • Worried

• The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a period of some 100 years beginning only in the 18th century, of the idea of change itself, of change over periods of time: in a word, of evolution.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Introduction

• I like to think that people who really know me understand I am the same person - and that is something I will always fight to maintain. Obviously the money is there, but I want to stay the same. At the same time I want my son to enjoy what I didn't have. My father-in-law often looks at all the toys and games Benjamín has.

  

  Sergio Aguero
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fighting

• If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

  

  William C. Brown
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Wealth

• My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Evolution
  • Cinema
  • Documentaries