Blum's Quotes

#1. One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.

Astra Taylor

#2. Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

Melissa Ferrick

#3. You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

Arlene Blum

#4. I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Jason Blum

#5. TV's influence on gender attitudes, social advancement, and fertility rates was equivalent to the impact of an extra five years of female education.

Deborah Blum

#6. Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty of the fans of the genre has been such a life-changing influence for me that I wanted to do everything I possibly could to help give something back to them.

Steven Blum

#7. For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

Jason Blum

#8. At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived - it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

Deborah Blum

#9. How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

Jenna Blum

#10. But with sea levels rising along the East Coast - a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change - scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen every three to twenty years.

Deborah Blum

#11. I'm such a fan of nature, and being with the trees every day fills me with joy.

Scott Blum

#12. When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

Howard Blum

#13. In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.

Ralph Blum

#14. I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

Jason Blum

#15. I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.

Jason Blum

#16. The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leon Blum

#17. Nicotine had been isolated and synthesized in the nineteenth century. In pure form, it took an ounce at most to kill the average adult.

Deborah Blum

#18. I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

Jason Blum

#19. I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.

Jason Blum

#20. The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress.

David Blum

#21. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Jason Blum

#22. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

William Blum

#23. No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

William Blum

#24. Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

Jason Blum

#25. I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

Jason Blum

#26. Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

Jenna Blum

#27. Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

Leon Blum

#28. There was the Bennett Cocktail (gin, lime juice, bitters), the Bee's Knees (gin, honey, lemon juice), the Gin Fizz (gin, lemon juice, sugar, seltzer water), and the Southside (lemon juice, sugar syrup, mint leaves, gin, seltzer water).

Deborah Blum

#29. From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.

Jenna Blum

#30. A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.

Jason Blum

#31. Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That's what we're in business to do, and that's what we're in business to make.

Jason Blum

#32. I think the most honest responses to the movies you get to watch are in houses and people's most private spaces, like the bedroom or in your own intimate space. I think that's where you feel safest, so when you're threatened in the place you feel safest, it makes for the scariest situations.

Jason Blum

#33. I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.

Jason Blum

#34. I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

Jason Blum

#35. There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.

Jason Blum

#36. I think because Skype is becoming so much more prevalent, and you're looking at someone else on a screen, it's going to work its way into movies and TV shows in all different ways, which I think is really cool.

Jason Blum

#37. YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

Jason Blum

#38. America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

William Blum

#39. When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.

Jason Blum

#40. The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

Jason Blum

#41. Automation turns us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit the development of expertise.

Deborah Blum

#42. I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

Jason Blum

#43. Massachusetts is seeing a surge in the number of unvaccinated children. Last year nearly 1,200 kids entered kindergarten with religious or philosophical vaccine exemptions, roughly double the total about a decade ago.

Deborah Blum

#44. I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

Jason Blum

#45. Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

Stella Blum

#46. It takes the faith of a child to follow Christ and the courage of a man to follow through on that faith and become a true servant.

Faith Blum

#47. Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

Arlene Blum

#48. I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

Jenna Blum

#49. The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

Jason Blum

#50. The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

William Blum

#51. One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Steven Blum

#52. Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Stella Blum

#53. Think of your metabolic system as a network of highly specialized channels of communication. (It's like the Wi-Fi your body runs on.) Give your metabolism the right information - no spam - and the communication comes through clearly and effectively.

Esther Blum

#54. There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

Ralph Blum

#55. Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

Arlene Blum

#56. If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

William Blum

#57. When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jenna Blum

#58. Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that human intervention has modified the orange for millenniums, as it has almost everything people eat.

Deborah Blum

#59. I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Jason Blum

#60. Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

William Blum

#61. Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph Blum

#62. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Jenna Blum

#63. Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

#64. For it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power. Step through the gateway now.

Ralph Blum

#65. Multiple networks run through the same wires, even though they are owned and operated by independent organizations - perhaps a university and a telephone carrier, say, or a telephone carrier contracted to a university. The networks carry networks. One

Andrew Blum

#66. You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

Steven Blum

#67. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.

Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

#68. I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from.
-Spike Speigel

Keiko Nobumoto

#69. I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

Steven Blum

#70. You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints

Arlene Blum

#71. My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Jason Blum

#72. 'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

Steven Blum

#73. Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

William Blum

#74. If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do - it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.

Deborah Blum

#75. Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off ...

Jenna Blum

#76. People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Jason Blum

#77. You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Leon Blum

#78. David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.

Rob Lowe

#79. The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.

Deborah Blum

#80. The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

Arlene Blum

#81. I've been fascinated with severe weather since I was four, when I saw a tornado at night in my mom and grandmother's southeast Minnesota hometown while everyone else was asleep - an experience I encoded in 'The Stormchasers.'

Jenna Blum

#82. Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.

Jenna Blum

#83. I think horror movies are still - this can be said of all movies - but being with a group of people scared together is more and more something unusual and fun. Especially for kids who are going out less generally.

Jason Blum

#84. Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

Howard Blum

#85. He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country.

Deborah Blum

#86. I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

Mark Duplass

#87. It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.

Jason Blum

#88. Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?

William Blum

#89. When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Leon Blum

#90. I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.

Jason Blum

#91. Even the help wanted ads in the back of Science or Nature can give you a clue as to what technology is hot.

Deborah Blum

#92. You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

Jason Blum

#93. In his examination of the young dial painters, he'd discovered a fact that was impossible to dismiss. The women were exhaling radon gas.

Deborah Blum

#94. Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

Steven Blum

#95. You want people who are self-starters.

Blum, David

#96. The peace to come gives the present no peace.

Peter Blum

#97. a cloudy cocktail called Smoke, made by mixing water and fuel alcohol. Smoke joints were tucked into the back of paint stores, drugstores, and markets, among the dry goods and the stacked cans.

Deborah Blum

#98. Bettinger bought his first genetic test in 2003. A few years later he launched a blog - The Genetic Genealogist - with the aim of explaining the science behind the tests in simple language.

Deborah Blum

#99. As the mother of the ten-month-old hospitalized in San Diego said, if people want to make that choice, they should go live on an island with its own schools and doctors: "their own little infectious disease island.

Deborah Blum

#100. I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.

Jason Blum