Omari Hardwick Quotes
Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
Quotes to Explore
-
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
-
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
-
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
-
Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
-
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
-
Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
-
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
-
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
-
Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
-
When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
-
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
-
You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
-
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-
First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
-
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
-
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
-
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
-
The journey matters as much as the goal.
-
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
-
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
-
I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.
-
Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.
-
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
-
Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
