Allison Anders Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
-
I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
-
I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
-
You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
-
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
-
In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
-
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
-
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
-
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
-
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
-
I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
-
If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
-
We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
-
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
-
Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
-
I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
-
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
-
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to.
