Polson Quotes

#1. Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

John Polson

#2. I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that.

John Polson

#3. Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

Lisa Cach

#4. TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

John Polson

#5. I am an inventor of music.

Igor Stravinsky

#6. I would love to live stream them all, so if you're in New York and you come along, you can watch Tropfest N.Y., and six weeks later you are watching Tropfest Arabia or Tropfest Australia live stream, and so they are all connected.

John Polson

#7. I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

John Polson

#8. I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#9. I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.

Brian O'Driscoll

#10. I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.

John Polson

#11. As long as there is the egoism of 'I-ness' (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards 'my-ness' (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?

Dada Bhagwan

#12. There is a time in each of our lives when we are hurled into the terrible understanding that bedrock can crumble in the blink of an eye.

Shannon Polson

#13. The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

John Polson

#14. Hate was the other side of love, wasn't it? That's what passion was like with her - to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn't in the picture, and that was a problem.

Jess C. Scott

#15. All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.

John Polson

#16. I appreciate you more because of the road I've traveled. My story brought me to you, and I wouldn't revise a word of my past if it led me any where but to your door.

Aaron Polson

#17. Winners do not whine, they roar. Let me hear you roar!

Ken Polson

#18. You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

John Polson

#19. There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

#20. I made 'Siam Sunset.' In Australia, it was pretty much universally hated, but I did notice that almost any American who saw it loved that film, so in 2001 I made a film in America called 'Swimfan,' and they released like a big studio movie, and it made money.

John Polson

#21. In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

Lea Salonga

#22. Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Damon Galgut

#23. Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

Louisa May Alcott

#24. Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have
there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Nancy Werlin

#25. If only I could look up and touch a tetromino-filled sky ... Until then, I thankfully have Dream of Pixels.

John Polson

#26. I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

John Polson

#27. Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

Don Polson

#28. I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

John Polson

#29. Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Charles Lamb

#30. I said you [Mike Pence] can't give me this [Purple Heart]. He said, "Mr. Trump you mean so much to me and my family." You know we're doing very well with the veterans. I know you guys do not like to say that.

Donald Trump

#31. I'm a very stereotypical person ... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.

Patti Stanger