Top 19 Michell Quotes
#2. I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were 'I love you.' There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
Stephen Levine
#3. French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
#4. Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.
William S. Burroughs
#5. I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
Roger Michell
#6. I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
Roger Michell
#7. Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.
Roger Michell
#8. A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time.
C.J. Heck
#9. I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.
Roger Michell
#10. It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
Steven Erikson
#11. When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
#12. It should have been a harmless question, but music was a personal thing for him; sharing his favorites always felt so intimate, like pulling out little pieces of his soul and laying them bare.
Priscilla Glenn
#13. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
James Weldon Johnson
#14. There were times when he couldn't believe how fresh the anger was, how little it had subsided.
Hannah Michell
#15. These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
Robert Macfarlane
#16. If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.
Paul Rees
#17. At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.
Anne Ursu
#18. Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
Roger Michell