Alverson Quotes & Sayings

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space. — Rick Alverson

I've never been interested in the convention of dialogue that facilitates narrative-it's always sort of bored me. I find myself zoning out just listening to cadences of voices and tonality and this sort of thing. — Rick Alverson

Alas! I thought I had only a friendship for you, but the grief I now feel convinces me, that I cannot live without you. — Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves. — George Vaillant

The greatest nations are those who try to change the unalterable realities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago in the stone age — Jodie Foster

Isn't the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation? — Brian D. McLaren

Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship first and foremost. It is your role, together, to be the best parents you can be and what better way to do that than by parenting together and teaching your children (by what you say and do) that the bond of marriage is stronger than any other earthly commitment — Miriam

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life. — C. Everett Koop

don't control things, things will sure as hell control you. Before — Charles Alverson

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience. — Rick Alverson

Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn't one of them — Anton Strout

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me. — Ajay Naidu

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. — Douglas Coupland

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that. — Rick Alverson