Batalion Quotes & Sayings

Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that comes from the misenscene. It also comes from the performances of the actors, because they're acting Victorian which really means that they're just acting the way they've seen previous actors act Victorian. — Christopher Nolan

I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun. — Naomi Watts

I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother. — W.C. Fields

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience. — Grace King

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment. — Theodor Adorno

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened. — Randall Dale Adams

As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated. — Danny Huston

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie. — Sting

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen ...
... if they don't exist, how can a man see them? — Ken Kesey

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller. — Amy Heckerling

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left. — Mihail Drumes