Maiwenn Quotes

#1. I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

Maiwenn

#2. I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Charles Grodin

#3. It is my passion to direct movies.

Maiwenn

#4. In a world of apples and kisses and shoes
He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Shel Silverstein

#5. The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

James M. Fallows

#6. You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

Maiwenn

#7. I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

Charles Ferguson

#8. I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.

Maiwenn

#9. We could open up a support group."
"I'd rather stick with hot chocolate. All the warmth I need, minus the awkward moments. Oh, and it's sweet. So thanks, but no thanks.
- Maiwenn and Pauline

Natalie Herzer

#10. The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.

Maiwenn

#11. I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

Maiwenn

#12. Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

Eddie Huang

#13. I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.

Michael Redhill

#14. In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

Richard Condon

#15. I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

Maiwenn

#16. With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Lawrence Summers

#17. Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.

Malcolm Gladwell

#18. I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Walliams

#19. For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

Maiwenn

#20. It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

#21. My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

Maiwenn

#22. You can't have your cake and let your neighbour eat it too.

Ayn Rand

#23. It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.

John D. MacDonald

#24. How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn's gift?"
"No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom's 'humble' gift.

Richelle Mead

#25. I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

Maiwenn

#26. Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

Orson Welles

#27. Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

Maiwenn

#28. If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

Herbert Spencer

#29. My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

Maiwenn