Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.

Quotes to Explore
-
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
-
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
-
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
-
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
-
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
-
Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
-
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
-
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
-
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
-
My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
-
Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
-
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
-
I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
-
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
-
Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.
-
You know sometimes I sit and wonderJust how this world would beIf we had all the people laughingAnd everybody living in harmony.We'd have to say se la se la.Talking to the people se la, se la.
-
They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
-
He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
-
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
-
Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
-
This is a thing I read by a scientist... it said scientists now say that a man thinks about sex once every 7.3 seconds. Now, I know what I think every 7.3 seconds. It's just a bunch of meaningless gibberish.
-
For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.