Dreyer's Quotes

#1. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.

Steve Erickson

#2. I never think I have to prove something.

Carine Roitfeld

#3. People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

Ray Dalio

#4. Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#5. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H.G.Wells

#6. The first task of every author is to evoke emotion in their reader. You may laugh or you may cry; you may love me or you may hate me. So long as you feel something, I know that I'm doing my job.

V.L. Dreyer

#7. I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

Salma Hayek

#9. Thankfully, memories were portable, and they only weighed as much as we let them.

V.L. Dreyer

#10. Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

Bud Selig

#11. I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Theophilus London

#12. Nobody's perfect, but the whole point of love is that the feeling is perfect, even if the people are not.

V.L. Dreyer

#13. Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

Bob Seger

#14. You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#15. If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

Pam Dreyer

#16. I am only one but still i am one

Helen Keller

#17. For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

Billy Graham

#18. Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#19. I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

Mario Puzo

#20. The cross grants us position, the Holy Spirit gives us experience.

Watchman Nee

#21. That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

Ellen Dreyer

#22. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.

Michael Connelly

#23. I've got to mark you as mine somehow. Unfortunately, people aren't cats; no matter how much I rub my face all over you, it just doesn't work.

V.L. Dreyer

#24. My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

Bruno Dumont

#25. I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Aidan Turner