Asphalt Jungle Quotes

#1. I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.

Carlos Dengler

#2. Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on ... there was something touching and appealing about her.

John Huston

#3. The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#4. I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

John Dyer

#5. The idea of appealing to people of a like mind and like spirit always appealed to me.

Robert Smith

#6. When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

Laurie Colwin

#7. Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

Euripides

#8. I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

Seamus McGarvey

#9. The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?

Julian Barnes