Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Face

• This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Work
  • Me
  • Interested

• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Marriage
  • Wedding
  • Flowers

• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
  • Heat

• I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Never Forget

• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Songwriting

• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Food

• Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Love
  • Like
  • Movies

• In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Life
  • Up
  • Change

• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• Sadly, in the most nerdy way possible, my superpower is anagramming.

  

  Matt Letscher

• Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Justice
  • Vain
  • Magnanimity

• I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Trying

• I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.

  

  Andy Daly
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Small

• The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson