Quotes About Andrew Niccol

#1. There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

Howard Schultz

#2. As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Dee Dee Myers

#3. fear clouds judgment and encourages you to REACT - rather than carefully consider alternatives - thus ensuring a less than optimal response to your problem. Even

Edwin Harkness Spina

#4. I never saved anything for the swim back.

Andrew Niccol

#5. There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

Simone Weil

#6. You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

Andrew Niccol

#7. I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander.

Andrew Niccol

#8. I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

Andrew Niccol

#9. Thank you, Lord, I was thinking, as we went deeper and deeper into the earth, because I was a lost sheep, and you brought me back. Because my life was dead, and you revived it. Because love wasn't alive in my heart, and you gave me back that gift.

Paulo Coelho

#10. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Albert Einstein

#11. It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

Andrew Niccol

#12. Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

Jeff Bezos

#13. I make movies. I'm not in politics.

Andrew Niccol

#14. Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.

Marianne Williamson

#15. Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.

Andrew Niccol

#16. Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

Laurie Anderson

#17. It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

Andrew Niccol

#18. As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

Andrew Niccol

#19. The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

Andrew Niccol

#20. We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

Andrew Niccol

#21. As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."

Marie Calloway

#22. Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.

Andrew Niccol

#23. See, that illustrates the whole problem," Dieter said. "The best Shakespearean actress in the whole territory, and her favourite line of text is from Star Trek.

Emily St. John Mandel

#24. I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

Gabrielle Zevin

#25. Killing time takes practice.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#26. If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

Andrew Niccol

#27. While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

Andrew Niccol

#28. A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Andrew Niccol

#29. Dine on little, and sup on less.

Miguel De Cervantes