Don Harron Quotes

#1. When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People see that and they think I don't understand the conventions because I'm not a good filmmaker.

Mary Harron

#2. The guys who fear becoming
fathers don't understand that fathering
is not something perfect men do, but something
that perfects the man. The end product of child
raising is not the child, but the parent.

Frank Pittman

#3. If you have had some taste of success, it's extremely addicting. I think the withdrawal from that is what's most devastating. I don't think it's the success that kills people, it's the withdrawal.

Mary Harron

#4. At Chelsea, a sacking is just another day at the office.

Andre Villas-Boas

#5. The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

Isamu Noguchi

#6. I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

Mary Harron

#7. The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

Taylor Caldwell

#8. Just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ...

Peace Pilgrim

#9. I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

Mary Harron

#10. An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Ryan Holiday

#11. Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

Mary Harron

#12. Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.

Mary Harron

#13. It is good to be loved, even though it will not last.

E. Lockhart

#14. I don't think there is any one route to directing ... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.

Mary Harron

#15. Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

John Geddes