Aki Kaurismaki Quotes

#1. I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas."
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson

Aaron Allston

#2. As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

Maria Montessori

#3. Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

Shannon Elizabeth

#4. Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.

Pierce Brosnan

#5. Real film is light; digital is electricity.

Aki Kaurismaki

#6. The shot [in the 1956 film Written on the Wind] with Dorothy Malone walking down the stairs makes all rock videos ever after resemble forgotten, anemic nuns.

Aki Kaurismaki

#7. She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

Kiersten White

#8. It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.

Pippa Middleton

#9. We with [ Marjane Satrapi] always work together on the script which is very important. We even film each other and we start to imagine things so that we are ready, because when you start shooting, it's pretty stressful.

Vincent Paronnaud

#10. Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

David Milne

#11. Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

Diana Vreeland

#12. The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.

Mark De Jonge

#13. When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

Aki Kaurismaki

#14. Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment ... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I can't walk down the streets. It's very difficult. I can't go to the mall. I have to go to hotels just to have a meal. Everybody wants to say hi and say thank you and congratulate me, so it's very difficult.

Manny Pacquiao

#16. Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

Richard Corliss

#17. Technology, for instance, has become a kind of imposter for connection, making us believe we're connected when we're really not - at least not in the ways we need to be.

Brene Brown