Chris Weitz Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 27 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Chris Weitz.
Famous Quotes By Chris Weitz

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

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

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. — Chris Weitz

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. — Chris Weitz

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

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

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one. — Chris Weitz

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another. — Chris Weitz

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

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

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. — Chris Weitz

It's our damage that makes us interesting. — Chris Weitz

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

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 — Chris Weitz

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

Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future. — Chris Weitz

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

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. — Chris Weitz

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. — Chris Weitz

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started. — Chris Weitz

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character. — Chris Weitz

The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it. — Chris Weitz

An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted. — Chris Weitz

People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one. — Chris Weitz

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." — Chris Weitz