John Carney Quotes

#1. When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

Wil Wheaton

#2. Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

Jay Carney

#3. I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

John Carney

#4. What a terrifying thought," he'd said, "that they're just as fucked-up as we are.

Jason M. Hough

#5. Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.

John Carney

#6. I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.

John Carney

#7. Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

Dan Gelber

#8. We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.

Martin Freeman

#9. So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the 20's with Woodrow Wilson, the government started getting involved in everything.

Benjamin Carson

#10. After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

John Carney

#11. It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

John Carney

#12. I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

Toby Young

#13. Shakespeare said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." Everything happens perfectly.

Frederick Lenz

#14. You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

John Carney

#15. I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

John Carney

#16. You cannot change the minds of the mindless. But that doesn't mean you just admit that's the way we have to live.

Fergus McCann

#17. I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

Jules Breton

#18. I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.

John Carney

#19. I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

John Carney

#20. I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

John Carney

#21. I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Aaron Levie