Baltasar Kormakur Quotes
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Quotes to Explore
-
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
-
Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
-
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
-
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
-
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
-
When I sing, people shut up.
-
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
-
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
-
Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
-
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
-
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
-
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
-
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
-
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
-
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
-
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
-
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
-
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
-
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.
-
I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
-
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
-
There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.
-
Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.
-
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
