Marco Brambilla Quotes

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

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• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Always
  • Greatest
  • Equal

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • High
  • Media
  • Riding

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Best
  • End

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• We are all children until our fathers die.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Children
  • Fathers

• Republicans tend to be more steadfast in their allegiance, and Democrats read one headline in the 'New York Times,' and the sky is suddenly falling.

  

  David Brock
  • Sky

• Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

  

  James Frain
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

  

  Marco Brambilla
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