Claire Denis Quotes

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

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• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Different
  • America
  • Best

• After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Same

• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Know
  • Theater

• Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Stage
  • Some
  • Even

• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Today
  • Government
  • Hand

• And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Husband
  • Find
  • Easy

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Different
  • Day
  • Thought

• I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Think
  • Day
  • Easy

• I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Study

• I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Song

• Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Soul

• A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

  

  Jason Alexander

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Chicago

• Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Space

• When I was starting out, it was almost impossible for me to get visas to travel to tournaments.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Travel

• The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

  

  Claire Denis