Winterbottom Quotes

#1. If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Michael Winterbottom

#2. Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

Buzz Aldrin

#3. I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

Michael Winterbottom

#4. Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

Brian Eno

#5. From a business perspective, we are trying to propose some suggestions to the government. Not only to benefit Fosun, but to benefit all private enterprises, especially proposals to help small to medium-sized companies.

Guo Guangchang

#6. I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

Cornel West

#7. One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Jacob Appelbaum

#8. If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.

Michael Winterbottom

#9. I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

Michael Winterbottom

#10. The essence of love is concern.

Nirmala Srivastava

#11. When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

Michael Winterbottom

#12. I prefer to watch people.

Michael Winterbottom

#13. His massive head tilted. He regarded her with a gaze made tranquil by the bright sun and the limitless sky.
She said in wonder, "You are the riddle."
"Of course I am," said the gryphon.

Thea Harrison

#14. Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

Emily Carr

#15. There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

Michael Winterbottom

#16. As an experienced wallflower, Violet Winterbottom knew to stake her ground and guard it. She'd

Tessa Dare

#17. I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

Michael Winterbottom

#18. I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.

Ally Carter

#19. The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

Kathryn Hahn

#20. The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

Mark Steyn

#21. A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

Michael Winterbottom

#22. In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Victor Hugo

#23. Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

Denis O'Hare

#24. When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you.

Michael Winterbottom

#25. Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.

Ted Chiang

#26. My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

Bobby Clarke

#27. It doesn't matter if you don't love me right away," he said. "Just give me a chance.

Joan Kilby