Top 37 John Curran Quotes

#1. Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

Eoin Colfer

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#2. I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

John Curran

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#3. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

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#4. As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

John Curran

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#5. People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

Rodney Dangerfield

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#6. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran

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#7. Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

John Philpot Curran

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#8. Yes, well, how was I to know you would be so dramatic? Really, Francine, I don't know where you get it from." Then she primly grabbed the fowling gun before departing from the room.

Jade Lee

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#9. But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

John Philpot Curran

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#10. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

Richard Branson

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#11. Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

John Philpot Curran

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#12. Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

Gloria Steinem

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#13. I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

John Philpot Curran

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#14. There's something about Alan Arkin. Even when he's doing nothing, he makes me laugh. I've always had that reaction to him: he's got a weary world-view that makes him perfectly cast.

John Curran

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#15. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.

John Philpot Curran

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#16. Sometimes it's possible to do everything right and still fail.

John Anthony Curran

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#17. A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

John Curran

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#18. I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.

John Curran

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#19. My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

John Philpot Curran

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#20. My parents don't really watch movies at all.

Teresa Palmer

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#21. The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.

John Curran

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#22. I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

John Curran

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#23. I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

John Curran

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#24. To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

John Philpot Curran

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#25. I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

John Curran

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#26. I believe in giving rewards and positive reinforcement for a job well done, but can we raise ourselves a little higher than the dogs and give rewards that have longer-term benefits? How can a poor food choice be a true reward anyway?

Jill Johnson

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#27. If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

John Curran

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#28. You'll meet her. She's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.

Guillermo Del Toro

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#29. I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

John Curran

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#30. In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

John Curran

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#31. You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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#32. In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.

John Philpot Curran

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#33. The spirit around leaving New York, for me, was that I just felt I needed to do something really outside of my comfort zone. And I really couldn't tell you at the time why I needed to do it. It wasn't like I was running from something dark; it was a desire to shake things up.

John Curran

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#34. When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

John Philpot Curran

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#35. Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

John Curran

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#36. 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

John Curran

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#37. His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

John Philpot Curran

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