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Quotes by English Authors
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
"Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done."
"I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry."
"I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient."
"He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is."
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
"Ignorance is the mother of admiration."
"The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly."
"It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it."
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
"All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries."
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
"If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon."
"Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up."
"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."
"It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly."
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most."
"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."
"I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally."
"The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film."
"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
"When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting."
"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."
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