Top 20 Quotes About Dormael
#1. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright
#2. When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.
Amity Shlaes
#3. He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.
Nathanael West
#4. What is this place?'
'Heaven.' She laughed, 'with better drinks!
Tan Redding
#5. If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.
Jaco Van Dormael
#6. ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent.
Michael Morell
#7. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing.
Jaco Van Dormael
#8. I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
Randy Jackson
#9. You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.
Jaco Van Dormael
#10. A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is.
Jaco Van Dormael
#11. He was a life raft in a sea of assholes.
Anna Jarzab
#12. Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.
Bobby Nichols
#13. Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.
Robert Burns
#14. Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#15. An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.
Jaco Van Dormael
#16. The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.
Richard Ford
#17. When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.
Jaco Van Dormael
#18. There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
Jaco Van Dormael
#19. When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love.
Jaco Van Dormael
#20. Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedom. What's difficult is raising the money beforehand, and then when the investor wants the money back, afterwards.
Jaco Van Dormael
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