Top 41 Patrice Leconte Quotes
#1. The atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere.
Bill Bryson
#2. The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.
Roger Zelazny
#3. A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.
Shannon L. Alder
#4. What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
Patrice Leconte
#5. American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
Kathleen Sebelius
#6. You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
Jose Saramago
#7. You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
Patrice Leconte
#8. I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
Patrice Leconte
#9. In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
Cindy Crawford
#10. The Lord is God only of them that turn to Him, accept Him and live according to His Word
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
Patrice Leconte
#12. You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Patrice Leconte
#13. The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals - recognize well enough to name - the more alienated we have come to feel from ourselves, the Earth and God, the Source.
Linda Bender
#14. I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
Patrice Leconte
#15. My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
Patrice Leconte
#16. I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film.
Patrice Leconte
#17. In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
Alexander Pope
#18. Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
Patrice Leconte
#19. What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.
Patrice Leconte
#20. Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.
Patrice Leconte
#22. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
Patrice Leconte
#23. I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.
Patrice Leconte
#24. No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
Patrice Leconte
#25. I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.
Robbie Williams
#26. I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
Patrice Leconte
#29. I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
Patrice Leconte
#30. But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
Patrice Leconte
#31. I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
Patrice Leconte
#32. The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.
Joe Meno
#34. As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.
Patrice Leconte
#36. This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties.
Robert Higgs
#38. If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Patrice Leconte
#39. Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#40. Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.
Patrice Leconte
#41. I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte
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