Weitz's Quotes

#1. I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

Bob Saget

#2. "Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

Tina Fey

#3. The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Chris Weitz

#4. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

Chris Weitz

#5. Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.

Chris Weitz

#6. I don't care what your daddy told you. I don't care what your grandaddy told you. The South lost. Get over it man! -January, 2003; Opening lecture to Intro to Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College

Mark A. Weitz

#7. I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

Elizabeth Reaser

#8. I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

Nat Wolff

#9. The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it.

Chris Weitz

#10. Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

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#11. I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

Chris Weitz

#12. So in a way, capitalism was a method for people to keep connected. That kind of glued people together, gave them a better way of getting one another to do things than just using flat-out force.

Chris Weitz

#13. I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

Chris Weitz

#14. I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

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#15. The first lesson I would learn about love is that it is filled with disappointment. The second thing I would learn is that the search for a cure almost invariably ends up being self-destructive.

Patricia Weitz

#16. And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

Chris Weitz

#17. All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

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#18. There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobody hurts. That place is only in our imagination. But if we get our heads around it, we can go a little way toward making this real place more like that imaginary place. They call that place Utopia.

Chris Weitz

#19. I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

Chris Weitz

#20. Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

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#21. It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

Chris Weitz

#22. Probably no other country in the 1920s - certainly not the United States, with its stark repression of the Left, vicious antiunion policies, and legally enshrined racism - had so wide a range of free speech, such a vital public sphere, as Germany.

Eric D. Weitz

#23. It's our damage that makes us interesting.

Chris Weitz

#24. The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

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#25. Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

Chris Weitz

#26. To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

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#27. People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.

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#28. Language trips you up. You can't ever say exactly what you mean, and every time you try try, you actually end up saying something about yourself.

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#29. Cats are always elegant.

John Weitz

#30. Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

Chris Weitz

#31. Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz is an actor, so he understands that process and that you can get nervous in it, and he can look beyond that. Or, it was just me and I was over-thinking the entire thing.

Tinsel Korey

#32. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

John Weitz

#33. Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run

John Weitz

#34. When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

John Weitz

#35. An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.

Chris Weitz

#36. I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Chris Weitz

#37. People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

Chris Weitz

#38. There's only a couple hundred of us here in the Square. Pretty much everybody has a sweet pad, except Brainbox, who lives in the library. I mean literally lives in the Bobst Library. I

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