Philippe Claudel Quotes

#1. Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

Hank Johnson

#2. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

Philippe Claudel

#3. The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility

Gilles Deleuze

#4. When you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

Philippe Claudel

#5. Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina!

George Lopez

#6. It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

Philippe Claudel

#7. I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.

Philippe Claudel

#8. Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

#9. I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.

Philippe Claudel

#10. Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Philippe Claudel

#11. In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

Philippe Claudel

#12. An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

Philippe Claudel

#13. I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Philippe Claudel

#14. I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back ... I just don't understand it.

Ozwald Boateng

#15. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Philippe Claudel

#16. They shall arrive in a murmur
And shall disappear into fog and earth

Philippe Claudel

#17. The key to wealth is to learn how to make money while you sleep

J. Paul Getty