Josef Von Sternberg Quotes

#1. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.

Kola Boof

#2. The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

Josef Von Sternberg

#3. You look concerned."
"Just that if you've started another war, I'd like a heads-up is all."
"The level of confidence you have in my diplomatic skills is overwhelming."
"What diplomatic skills?

Michael J. Sullivan

#4. I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

Mahesh Bhatt

#5. We prefer being certain about a bad scenario rather than being uncertain

S.E. Sever

#6. If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Darryl F. Zanuck

#7. Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Barbara Sher

#8. I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

Luke Bracey

#9. Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

Josef Von Sternberg

#10. And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.

Mike Carey

#11. It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#12. A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

Josef Von Sternberg

#13. Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Keith Henson

#14. The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

Josef Von Sternberg