Wolfgang Petersen Quotes

#1. To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget ... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Gary Cole

#2. You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.

Wolfgang Petersen

#3. Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

Robert Wise

#5. Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.

Wolfgang Petersen

#7. This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.

Alan D. Eames

#8. Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Gene Tierney

#9. I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

Wolfgang Petersen

#10. Every film starts with the script.

Wolfgang Petersen

#11. DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Wolfgang Petersen

#13. Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.

Wolfgang Petersen

#14. There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.

Paul Auster

#15. What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

Wolfgang Petersen

#16. Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

Wolfgang Petersen

#17. The exaggerated dramatic force employed by Umfraville in presenting his narrative made it hard to know what demeanour best to adopt in listening to the story. Tragedy might at any moment give way to farce, so that the listener had always to keep his wits about him.

Anthony Powell

#18. I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

Macaulay Culkin