Paolo Sorrentino Quotes
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
Quotes to Explore
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.
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I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
