Karel Reisz Quotes

#1. I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

Karel Reisz

#2. There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.

John Ruskin

#3. It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Ovid

#4. ... There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible - magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Homer

#5. I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Karel Reisz

#6. I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

Nick Moran

#7. He frowned. "Jedi aren't without emotion. We're allowed to grieve."
"Perhaps," Ventress allowed, "but somehow I don't think most Jedi try to drown the pain with alcohol and slam their fists on the table.

Christie Golden

#8. Most of people do not value the blessing of freedom until they lose it.

Abdel Halim

#9. A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Karel Reisz

#10. How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

George Carlin

#12. The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

Karel Reisz

#14. Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Melissa De La Cruz

#15. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Carla H. Krueger

#16. The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Karel Reisz

#17. I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

Jim Watt

#18. Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

Karel Reisz

#19. There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!

Ian St. John

#20. There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

Karel Reisz

#21. When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

H.W.L. Poonja

#22. I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love ...

David Bowie

#23. A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Karel Reisz