Joe Cornish Quotes

#1. I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.

Joe Cornish

#2. Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

#3. You can only eat so much white cake.

Christopher Moore

#4. I'm not a runner. I don't run.

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#5. So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.

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#6. I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

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#7. I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Miriam Makeba

#8. One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.

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#9. I'm not an angry man.

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#10. And I used to buy 'Fangoria,' the horror magazine, which made my mum wonder if I was going to be a serial killer.

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#11. In truth I don't like Cornish pasties.

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#12. I really love traveling to Japan.

Christina Aguilera

#13. I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

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#14. I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.

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#15. In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Orhan Pamuk

#16. Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

Toni Sorenson

#17. I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years.

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#18. I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

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#19. Every student should know that statues are meant for sitting. If we're to endure their terrible old faces leering at us, the least they can do is offer shade or a comfortable perch.
Nigel Bristow to Max McDaniels

Henry H. Neff

#20. I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

Joe Cornish