Morten Quotes

#1. That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

Morten Tyldum

#2. Be afraid ... be VERY afraid!

The Undertaker

#3. data. Paul Collier is one of the few who has ventured a recent guess. He recently asked: "Is this dismal performance just an artifact of the data?

Morten Jerven

#4. The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

Samuel R. Delany

#5. You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.

Morten Tyldum

#6. I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

Simon Cowell

#7. Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#8. I gave her a CD, embossed with a heart. She probably expected it to be full of romantic music, but it contained nothing but jihadist chants.

Morten Storm

#9. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Morten Tyldum

#10. What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Morten Tyldum

#11. Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Morten Tyldum

#12. Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.

Morten Hogsberg

#13. We can change skill levels through training. We can't change attitudes.

Morten Hansen

#14. It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

Sarah Dessen

#15. Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Morten Tyldum

#16. Revenge might be sweet and although friendship might be sweeter, once you find true love you will taste the sweetest thing life has to offer

Morten Hogsberg

#17. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

Morten Tyldum

#18. What makes a man a man are his deeds, his responsibilities, and his reactions ... These things are also what makes a man a monster.

Shannon Delany

#19. I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman