Assayas Olivier Quotes & Sayings

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. — Liam Neeson

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. — Thomas Friedman

men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells. — Ray Bradbury

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. — Woody Harrelson

The hordes of demonic activity at times can take advantage of those who are wounded by others in the body of Christ. When we allow any hurt we can be used of the enemy to sow discord into God's work and His body. — Greg Gordon

One of the greatest films ever made by a director who, almost forty years after his death, is still an intimidating and disturbing figure in the history of cinema. Visconti's films stand outside the borders of the medium, by their ambition, by their scope, uniting past and present, individuals and history, both deeply human and transcendent. The Leopard, his most translucent, towering achievement, embodies everything the best filmmaking can be, grand, profound, entertaining, physical and metaphysical, sharp as a blade and melodramatic. It stays with you, forever. — Olivier Assayas

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life. Helen Keller — Robin S. Sharma

None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it. — Holly Black

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator? — Jonathan Haidt

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological. — Stephen Holmes

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to? — Stephen King

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them. — Emmanuelle Beart