But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
When people go at war they cheapen things.
I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.
From where I started to where I'm at right now I'm loaded in retrospect to the opportunities that I have. As far as money and the scheme of the world, I don't cash in. I do films because I'm sensitive and maybe stupid, and that I feel like I'm going to have fun on and feel like I'm going to have a good experience with. It's not about punching in and selling soap.
I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say. " I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
. . . Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world. . . (We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world. . . our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.