Davian Quotes

#1. The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Tracy Letts

#2. Once you finish something, you come to the realization that you can do it again.

Kal S. Davian

#3. Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.

Scott Turow

#4. they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.

Carol S. Dweck

#5. Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.
But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#7. I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.

Justin Trudeau

#8. Only you can stop you.

Kal S. Davian

#9. Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

Tony Kushner

#10. Life without madness is mediocrity.

Nelou Keramati

#11. People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

John Le Carre

#12. I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

Shane Black

#13. How long will I love you?
As long as stars are above you,
And longer if I may

Ellie Goulding

#14. Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around.

Pimp C

#15. I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

Shea Hembrey

#16. I want to be the first black man on the moon

Muhammad Ali

#17. When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Bill Paxton