Walter Salles Quotes
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Quotes to Explore
-
The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
-
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
-
I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
-
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
-
I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
-
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
-
I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
-
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
-
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
-
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
-
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
-
The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
-
I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
-
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
-
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
-
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
-
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.
-
I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
-
I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down, and I keep that message throughout. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.
-
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
-
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
-
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
