Top 27 Conor Mcpherson Quotes

#1. No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Thomas Vernor Smith

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#2. The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

Conor McPherson

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#3. When people are out of their comfort zone, it's more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That's the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.

Conor McPherson

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#4. I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue.

Conor McPherson

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#5. We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

Conor McPherson

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#6. Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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#7. The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Conor McPherson

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#8. If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

Conor McPherson

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#9. I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

Conor McPherson

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#10. Directing is such a crucial part of the writing process; you start directing and you see what does not work. "Oh, God, what was I thinking?" and then you can rearrange it.

Conor McPherson

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#11. As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

Michelle Richmond

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#12. The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Joseph Goebbels

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#13. This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ...

Victor Hugo

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#14. I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Conor McPherson

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#15. I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Conor McPherson

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#16. It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

Conor McPherson

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#17. I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Conor McPherson

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#18. I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Conor McPherson

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#19. I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

Conor McPherson

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#20. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

Conor McPherson

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#21. I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

Conor McPherson

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#22. Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Rajneesh

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#23. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Conor McPherson

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#24. Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it's not good advice.

Mick Farren

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#25. We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Conor McPherson

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#26. Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

Pope Paul VI

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#27. Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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