Nemes Quotes

#1. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.

Dan Simmons

#2. We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

James Surowiecki

#3. No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now.

Lauren Groff

#4. When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps.

Laszlo Nemes

#5. Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Anthony Mackie

#6. The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Spencer Haywood

#7. Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?

Richie Norton

#8. There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future.

Laszlo Nemes

#9. I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Octavia Butler

#10. It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

Laszlo Nemes

#11. The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

T.E. Lawrence

#12. We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

Samuel Sharpe

#13. I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

Laszlo Nemes

#14. I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way.

Laszlo Nemes

#15. You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

Leonard Jacobson

#16. We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means.

Laszlo Nemes

#17. If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

Laszlo Nemes

#18. If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

Laszlo Nemes

#19. Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.

Marta Kauffman

#20. There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.

Laszlo Nemes

#21. Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

Bruce Willis

#22. I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

Horace

#23. We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.

Laszlo Nemes