Top 12 Von Sternberg Quotes
#1. I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.
Anton Yelchin
#2. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
Kola Boof
#3. The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
Josef Von Sternberg
#4. True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
Seth Godin
#6. It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.
Betsy Palmer
#7. Shadow conceals - light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
Josef Von Sternberg
#8. It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
Elizabeth Kostova
#9. Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it
James Patterson
#10. A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.
Josef Von Sternberg
#11. To my thinking, though, it's what happens before death that's important. All of us die. How many really live?
John Gwynne
