Abdellatif Quotes

#1. I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.

James Randi

#2. The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom ranked for Jefferson as one of the three achievements worthy of gracing his tombstone (the Declaration of Independence and the University of Virginia were the other two).

Matthew Stewart

#3. I was so tired. I just wanted to curl up with someone, anyone, even him, and sleep until work on Monday. I wanted to feel someone's, anyone's, hands on me, even if it was in that way I hate, the fingers all over my face and jaw.

Alexandra Kleeman

#4. [I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

Max Planck

#5. Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
OF anguish heart-stiking,
Of soul-killing fright.
Live for my living
Or else I must die
Don't leave me alone.
A world heard that cry.

Anne McCaffrey

#6. The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#7. By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Maureen Forrester

#8. The thing about the ocean is that the surface won't always tell you what is going on underneath.

Jennifer Arnett

#9. My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#10. What men in all the world have shown such daring?

Hernando Cortes

#11. My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.

Abdellatif Laabi

#12. Lilacs are May in essence.

Jean Hersey

#13. Every day that I bring this World Title home with me, I realize it's a gift. It's a blessing. And this? This has been the biggest, the BIGGEST ride of my life.

Oscar Gutierrez

#14. In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

Abdellatif Laabi

#15. I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#16. What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

Hermann Hesse

#17. I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#18. A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

Chelsea Handler

#19. I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#20. But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

Abdellatif Laabi

#21. PRO16.27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Anonymous

#22. What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#23. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

#24. My head is full of monsters and I'm one of them.

Richard Kadrey

#25. Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#26. To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#27. The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

Abdellatif Kechiche

#28. When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

Abdellatif Kechiche