Hal Hartley Quotes

#1. Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.

J.M. Robertson

#2. I believe that you wanted to love Marie - that you're enamored by the idea of love - but that you have no concept what love is. I think that's what you're searching for in St. Giles - some source of emotion, some inkling of what human feeling really is.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#3. The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

B.W. Powe

#4. I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.

Hal Hartley

#5. You know my biggest fear is this: That all my hard work. All my good intentions. All my studying. Have been nothing more than a building of a wall between me and life.

Hal Hartley

#6. He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

Mary Shelley

#7. When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

Martin Donovan

#8. There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

Hal Hartley

#9. I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

James Patterson

#10. Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Peter Benchley

#11. I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

Jim Coleman

#12. Pumpkin?" He nodded at the cookies.

"Of course."

"Anna Banana, I love you.

Jennifer Rush

#13. So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

Gerry Mulligan

#14. TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

Hal Hartley

#15. This is a miserable country, Zafar. I don't need to explain that to you. It needs help. Isn't it that simple?
Is anything that simple?

Zia Haider Rahman

#16. Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.

Hal Hartley

#17. Respect, admiration and trust equals love.

Hal Hartley

#18. I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

Rick Bass