Bahrani Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal. — Ramin Bahrani

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings. — Ramin Bahrani

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface. — Howard Zinn

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you - and it will find you — William Landay

It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement. — Marcel Proust

You have to let life come and go. — Ramin Bahrani

The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. — Ramin Bahrani

We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants. — Ramin Bahrani

I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them. — Stanley Donwood

Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite. — Frederick Lenz

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings. — Ramin Bahrani

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real. — Ramin Bahrani

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time. — Ramin Bahrani

Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God's. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time. — Eberhard Arnold

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested. — Ramin Bahrani

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything. — Ramin Bahrani

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth — Aesop

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent. — Louise Hay

You're not going to live your life unscathed. — Kirstie Alley

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans. — Herman Kahn

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships. — Jonathan Nolan

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. — Alan Alda

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here. — T.D. Jakes

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that. — Ramin Bahrani

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound. — Ramin Bahrani