Marc Forster Quotes

#1. This Universal wheel, this merry-go-round
In our imagination we have found
The sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound
We are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround.

Omar Khayyam

#2. For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

Marc Forster

#3. Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Kate Atkinson

#4. Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.

Amy Childs

#5. The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I have in mind, as well as a color spectrum of mood boards.

Marc Forster

#6. I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

James Franco

#7. It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the same time I like to distance myself from it. It's key for my process to try and remain outside the bubble.

Marc Forster

#8. I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Dwayne Johnson

#9. It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Todd Akin

#10. John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

Douglas Brinkley

#11. You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

Marc Forster

#12. Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Marc Forster

#13. When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

Marc Forster

#14. Men will always like their toys. It's a woman's job not to be one of them.

David Ellsworth

#15. The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

Cat Stevens

#16. I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

Marc Forster

#17. The name's Pepper like the spray, so I guess you wouldn't want me in your face!

Mike Ferris

#18. I wish she knew that there are other options besides "complete and utter breakdown" and "plastic smile, everything's fine." There's a middle ground, waiting to be found.

Cat Clarke

#19. The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Marc Forster

#20. I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

Marc Forster

#21. Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.

Marc Forster

#22. God isn't like a candy machine. We can't insert a good deed and receive a blessing. Then we'd be in charge, not him.

Sarah Sundin

#23. I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.

Marc Forster

#24. Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

Haruki Murakami

#25. I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

Marc Forster

#26. Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.

Marc Forster

#27. I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Marc Forster

#28. The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

Marc Forster

#29. I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

Marc Forster

#30. One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

Marc Forster

#31. On 'Stranger Than Fiction,' the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

Marc Forster

#32. I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly 'Bond.'

Marc Forster

#33. I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.

Marc Forster

#34. The universe is a mirror - if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#35. When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.

Marc Forster

#36. What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

Marc Forster