Babbit Quotes & Sayings

My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible. — Jamie Babbit

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day. — Jamie Babbit

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make. — Jamie Babbit

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men. — Allan Gurganus

I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring my world and my friends, and a lot of them happen to be gay. — Jamie Babbit

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. — John Dewey

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong.
Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam — Stephanie Skeem

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again. — Zoroaster

Thoughts have no barrier. — Debasish Mridha

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best. — Jamie Babbit

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing. — Sinclair Lewis

Runny's Nicpic
One day Runny Babbit
Met little Franny Fog.
He said, "Let's have a nicpic
Down by the lollow hog."
He brought some cutter bookies,
Some teanuts and some pea.
And what did Franny Fog bring?
Her whole fog framily. — Shel Silverstein

The Universal Turtle Verse
I spend the day nibbling rent-free
Underneath the Giving Tree.
Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake
Show Runny Babbit how to make
Up verses. Then I lug my hump
(Careful not to bump the Glump)
Into the woods to trade a word
With the argle-bargle bird:
Nuthatch wisely recommends,
Find out where the sidewalk ends. — J. Patrick Lewis

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks — Gerard Way

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor. — Jamie Babbit

I think women directors have to be really tenacious. — Jamie Babbit