Otto Preminger Quotes

#1. Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go!

Mort Sahl

#2. I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

Otto Preminger

#3. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

Randy Sandke

#4. For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Albert Camus

#5. What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

Otto Preminger

#6. It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush.

Raymond Chandler

#7. Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

Otto Preminger

#8. What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

David Plotz

#9. I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

David Bowie

#10. I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. And if he was a bit battered by circumstance, that merely added to his charm.
"You're a very hard person to kill, I think," I said. "That's a great comfort to me.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

Otto Preminger

#12. I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

Justin Bieber

#13. I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

Otto Preminger

#14. I can run around completely naked if you like.

Patrick Sanchez

#15. Your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, ...

Dorothy Uhnak

#16. The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

Winston Churchill

#17. You didn't want to go barefoot. You definitely didn't want to be slipping on blood and gore in a cheap pair of flip-flops.

Rick Riordan

#18. When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

Otto Preminger

#19. Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

Otto Preminger

#20. Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

Maria Popova

#21. I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

Otto Preminger

#22. Cry you little monsters!

Otto Preminger

#23. I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Otto Preminger

#24. The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Benjamin Graham

#25. When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

Otto Preminger

#26. In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#27. I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Quentin Tarantino

#28. I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Otto Preminger