Bahrani Ramin 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

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — Larry McMurtry

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

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing. — Orson Scott Card

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

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

You got to go there to know there. — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves? — John Lennon

What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read." Romulus thumps his chest. "Honor is what you do. — Pierce Brown

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

We have to recognize that we're nothing, the Pastor says. In the surface world, when they returned from the mine and showered and entered their homes, they were princes, kings, spoiled sons, well-fed fathers, Romeos. They believed their private worlds of home and family spun thanks to their labor, and that as workingmen and breadwinners they had every right to expect their world to revolve around their needs. Now the heart of the mountain has collapsed on top of them, and they are trapped by a block of stone, an object whose newness and perfection suggest, to some, a divine judgment. — Hector Tobar

The kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory. ========== — Anonymous

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