Warwick Thornton Quotes

#1. I'm meant to hold this man's hand. I'm meant to kiss him.

Karina Halle

#2. I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

Warwick Thornton

#3. I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

Warwick Thornton

#4. I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

Warwick Thornton

#5. You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

James A. Baldwin

#6. Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

Sven Birkerts

#7. In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.

Warwick Thornton

#8. You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.

Warwick Thornton

#9. Human beings are not primarily thinking creatures. We are creatures driven by our loves.

Matt Chandler

#10. Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

Warwick Thornton

#11. Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.

Stuart Hill

#12. When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

Warwick Thornton

#13. The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

Warwick Thornton

#14. Habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives. When

Charles Duhigg

#15. How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?

Spencer W. Kimball

#16. The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly ... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

Henry Miller

#17. I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Chloe Sevigny

#18. The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#19. Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Archibald Alexander

#20. You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

Warwick Thornton