Benmont Tench Quotes

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Up
  • Care

• I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Evil

• People are going to say what they want to say.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Want
  • Say

• I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Might
  • Filmmaker

• I find myself asking questions that as a filmmaker I never thought I would ask. Like I get a call from a magazine for a feature and my first question is, 'Cover or not?' Interview invite from a leading channel? I have stopped asking the topic. I'm just like 'Primetime or not?' If I am invited and put in the second row, I can be distraught for days!

  

  Karan Johar
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Death
  • Struggle
  • Old

• It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • You
  • Fear
  • Difficult

• Disagreement is something normal.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Something
  • Disagreement

• For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Happy
  • Military
  • Honor

• I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Real
  • Myself

• Will Smith is one of my favorite actors, and he's also a triple threat. He successfully crossed over from music into acting. Also, I liked 'I Am Legend' because it was so unexpected. The movie wasn't what I thought it'd turn out to be.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Legend

• All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Think
  • Nice

• I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Know
  • Feminist
  • Restaurant

• I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Give
  • Three
  • Globalization

• Movement will cease before we are weary of being useful.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I don't take relationships too seriously, but everyone else seems to. And when you get your heart broken, it's like the end of the world. And I look at it as that was one moment in your life, one chapter. That person helped you grow and figure out what kind of person you want to be with in the future.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Leadership

• I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Business
  • Experience

• I'd only started noticing that something had gone wrong when I got a call from Naomi Campbell, she called me and said, "You gotta do something about it, it's really bad, they're not using any models of color."

  

  Bethann Hardison
  • Models
  • Noting

• I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. … Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?

  

  Jim Starlin
  • Different
  • Why

• I loved working with Bob Dylan.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers