Top 100 Oren Quotes

#1. I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #41386
#2. Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #46529
#3. We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way they should be, the future is pretty dim for the human species.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #57346
#4. The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #64534
#5. Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #83269
#6. Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #93776
#7. I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

John Frusciante

Oren Quotes #102600
#8. I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #141693
#9. America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #187712
#10. I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #202114
#11. Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #259606
#12. I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No."

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #264825
#13. Oren was wrong.
He wasn't trying to avoid Lena.
He was trying to save her.

Lynn Vroman

Oren Quotes #321809
#14. Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #324362
#15. It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #347682
#16. For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #360185
#17. Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #390069
#18. There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #415848
#19. The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #441490
#20. If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #457443
#21. We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.

Oren Lyons

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#22. The law says if you poison the water, you'll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you'll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you'll suffer ... If you don't learn that, you can only suffer. There's no discussion with this law.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #507080
#23. One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #513021
#24. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #562497
#25. Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #571608
#26. Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #597032
#27. Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #628595
#28. After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #631251
#29. Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around the situation until you are running out of options and then really have no idea what to do.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #654948
#30. When we walk upon Mother Earth,
we always plant our feet carefully
because we know the faces of our future generations
are looking up at us from beneath the ground.
we never forget them.

Oren Lyons

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#31. The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #768136
#32. Things that scare me are the loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen. Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #768990
#33. I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #786681
#34. * We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #801959
#35. I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #832626
#36. Oren tells Marcus: You have a peaceful, noble heart. But as we discussed last night, some men deserve to die. Valeria knows that.

Scott Robert Scheller

Oren Quotes #839862
#37. I believe that the only alternative Israel has to save itself as a Jewish state - and let's be frank about that: the Jewish state is predicated on having a Jewish majority - the only way we can do that is by unilaterally withdrawing our border and withdrawing our settlements in the West Bank.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #842618
#38. All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #868358
#39. I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #904088
#40. To give a dopamine kick and create desire, offer a reward. To give a norepinephrine kick and create tension, take something away.

Oren Klaff

Oren Quotes #920736
#41. I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #925261
#42. I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #937939
#43. Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #967125
#44. When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1049883
#45. Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

Oren Arnold

Oren Quotes #1050647
#46. Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1083300
#47. I have no idea what the next project will be and if there's a next project. I don't even know if we're all going to be here tomorrow, but I'm pretty optimistic.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #1104944
#48. What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate. There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.

Oren Lyons

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#49. It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.

Oren Moverman

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#50. So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

Oren Moverman

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#51. The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1207099
#52. Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1239919
#53. Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

Oren Lyons

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#54. Few men are a threat to a fully-trained wizard.
Oren the Wise

Scott Robert Scheller

Oren Quotes #1270437
#55. The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1273782
#56. Being in the moment with these guys was just a profound experience every day, and when we shoot a movie it's actually a very short process, especially an independent movie like this. It was only thirty five days of shooting.

Oren Moverman

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#57. You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

Oren Arnold

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#58. I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1302767
#59. So this is my Pathetic Loser's confession: I am Oren Tenning, and I have fallen. Hard.

Linda Kage

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#60. Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1319086
#61. The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Oren Peli

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#62. In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1331685
#63. I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1331721
#64. I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is masculinity.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #1335935
#65. What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1371012
#66. Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1371385
#67. Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

Oren Lyons

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#68. If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #1420952
#69. It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1451126
#70. If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

Oren Lyons

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#71. He had a point, but I wasn't sure it was much better than Elora's. She worked more of a con job, and Oren proposed outright theft.

Amanda Hocking

Oren Quotes #1465008
#72. People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.

Michael Oren

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#73. 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1470701
#74. I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1478742
#75. The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #1479364
#76. When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1483926
#77. One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East,

Michael B. Oren

Oren Quotes #1491672
#78. We in Israel certainly have a great interest in seeing peace, stability, and security restored to Egypt. We want nothing more than peace for the Egyptian people. We're not going to get involved in how Egypt, how the Egyptians should run themselves. That's an internal Egyptian affair.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #1498915
#79. What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.

Oren Moverman

Oren Quotes #1505087
#80. The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. "The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical," he groaned, "like all the rest of the world.

Michael B. Oren

Oren Quotes #1533627
#81. But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that the movie is about, because it basically gives you three options for looking at the police, as symbolized by Dave Brown.

Oren Moverman

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#82. In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

Oren Peli

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#83. Sing it like the midnight wind, Sing it like a prayer; Sing it on to the way to hell, Them blues'll take you there. - Oren Morse, Dead Man's Song

Jonathan Maberry

Oren Quotes #1538931
#84. I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

Oren Peli

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#85. By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

Oren Peli

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#86. In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Oren Peli

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#87. She arched and moaned out her need. "Oh God, Oren".
I wanted to tell her I loved it when she said my name like that. But I just sighed. "I know, right? I'm really good at this.

Linda Kage

Oren Quotes #1631897
#88. To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

Oren Arnold

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#89. I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.

Michael Oren

Oren Quotes #1712535
#90. Times change but principles don't.
Times change but lands do not.
Times change but our culture and
our language remain the same.
And that's what you have to keep intact.
It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart.

Oren Lyons

Oren Quotes #1753985
#91. I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.

Michael Oren

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#92. Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff.

Josh Kaufman

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#93. I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people go through, and how their acting works for them.

Oren Moverman

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#94. I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

Oren Peli

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#95. Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.

Oren Lyons

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#96. I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can ... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.

Oren Peli

Oren Quotes #1827008
#97. We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

Oren Lyons

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#98. The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

Oren Lyons

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#99. If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all.

Oren Lyons

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#100. I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

Oren Peli

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