Top 87 Palma Quotes
#1. Do you remember the time, Mike," Jeremy laughed, "that you put a banana down your pants and walked up to the Palma-nator. It looked like you had one hell of a hard-on.
Buffy Andrews
#2. PALM, n. A species of tree ... of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed ... This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. 'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.
Steven Bauer
#4. We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.
Niki Lauda
#5. I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.
Lawrence Kasdan
#6. Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
John Leguizamo
#7. I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.
Louise Nurding
#8. Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
Quentin Tarantino
#9. The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
John C. Reilly
#10. I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
Douglas Rushkoff
#11. You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god ... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.
Eric Stoltz
#12. I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'
Robert Englund
#13. Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.
John C. McGinley
#14. Again, let's pay all due respect to De Palma and put him over here so we're not saying, "Mine's deeper, mine's better." Let's just say, in reading the book, what I fell in love with was this mother-daughter story that was so amazing and so profound.
Kimberly Peirce
#15. We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad relationships. The success of the horror genre has led to its downfall.
Dario Argento
#16. We give violent movies a pass but come down hard on a rapper like Scarface, who is ultimately a storyteller just like Brian de Palma. And neither of them is responsible for the poverty and violence that really do shape people's lives
not to mention their individual choices.
Jay-Z
#17. Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is ... ummm ... private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?
Jordan Sonnenblick
#18. I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma
#19. I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
Brian De Palma
#20. Ultimately it was man's limited senses which established the boundaries of the world.
Felix J. Palma
#21. Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.
Brian De Palma
#22. However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
Brian De Palma
#23. You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
Brian De Palma
#24. I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
Brian De Palma
#25. I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.
Brian De Palma
#26. I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
Brian De Palma
#27. I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
Brian De Palma
#28. The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.
Felix J. Palma
#29. Perhaps love is a sentiment shared by other species in the universe. But the love that a human being can generate is exclusively his own and will die with him. After that, the universe, perhpas despite its unfathomable vastness, its apparent infinity, will no longer be complete.
Felix J. Palma
#30. And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
Brian De Palma
#31. Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
Brian De Palma
#32. When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
Brian De Palma
#33. The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.
Felix J. Palma
#34. The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
Brian De Palma
#35. But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
Brian De Palma
#36. I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
Brian De Palma
#37. Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.
Felix J. Palma
#38. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.
Felix J. Palma
#39. Do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage
Brian De Palma
#40. The passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19
Felix J. Palma
#41. There are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
Felix J. Palma
#42. He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.
Felix J. Palma
#43. Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.
Felix J. Palma
#44. And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
Brian De Palma
#45. As if he had turned into one of those sarcophagi lined with bristling nails. He wanted to flee himself, unshackle himself from the excruciating substance he was made of, but he was trapped inside the martyred flesh.
Felix J. Palma
#46. By changing nothing, nothing changes. Tony Robbins
Toni De Palma
#47. True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge
Felix J. Palma
#48. Wealth brings poverty in its wake, thought Andrew,
Felix J. Palma
#49. It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left.
Felix J. Palma
#50. Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and no necessity for change.
Felix J. Palma
#51. Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
Felix J. Palma
#53. I would like you to have it, Mr. Wells" he said, presenting him with the basket,"to remind you that everything is a question of wills
Felix J. Palma
#54. The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma
#55. However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
Brian De Palma
#56. The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
Felix J. Palma
#57. I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
Brian De Palma
#58. The camera lies all the time
lies 24 times/second.
Brian De Palma
#59. I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception.
Cristiana Di Palma
#60. You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
Brian De Palma
#61. It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.
Brian De Palma
#62. I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.
Felix J. Palma
#63. Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?
Felix J. Palma
#64. We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
Felix J. Palma
#65. There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.
Felix J. Palma
#66. So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Brian De Palma
#68. I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
Brian De Palma
#69. But there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.
Felix J. Palma
#71. I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
Brian De Palma
#72. Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
Brian De Palma
#73. I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
Brian De Palma
#74. I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books ... True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.
Felix J. Palma
#75. You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
Brian De Palma
#76. You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
Brian De Palma
#77. Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Felix J. Palma
#78. Time could only be seen in the falling leaves, a wound that healed, a woodworm's tunneling, rust that spread, and hearts that grew weary. Without anyone to discern it, time was nothing, nothing at all.
Felix J. Palma
#79. You put on a pair of Louboutins and the world changes colour.
Rossy De Palma
#80. While finding true love was one of the most splendid things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid.
Felix J. Palma
#81. That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
Brian De Palma
#82. Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
Brian De Palma
#83. It is a question of will, Mr. Wells," he said, striving to imbue his slurred voice with a tone of authority. "That's all.
Felix J. Palma
#84. Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
Brian De Palma
#86. Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.
Felix J. Palma
#87. If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
Felix J. Palma
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