Karel Reisz Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

H.W.L. Poonja

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

Karel Reisz

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

Ian St. John

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

Karel Reisz

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

Jim Watt

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

Karel Reisz

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

Carla H. Krueger

#12. 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

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

Karel Reisz

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

George Carlin

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Karel Reisz

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

Abdel Halim

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. ... 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

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

Ovid

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

John Ruskin

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

Karel Reisz