Breillat Quotes & Sayings

My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing. — Eminem

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. — Trevor Nunn

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented - the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain. — Catherine Breillat

Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don't know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you've got nothing to worry about. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. — Hunter S. Thompson

Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing. — John Trudell

Only conformists are ever adored. — Catherine Breillat

Inspire others to live their lives for the glory of God. — Paul Baloche

Everything is subjective in the human mind. Our emotions, our opinions, they're all relative. It all depends on perspective. — Jasmine Warga

The time you spent on earth and what you did with your life may be of great importance to you; what matters most to God is where you go from here. Are you sure of your destination? — Felix Wantang

There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal. — Catherine Breillat

Make your life a story worth telling, — Adam Braun

Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers ... How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis? — Robert Jensen

Be what we make, and not who we are. — Catherine Breillat

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. — Catherine Breillat

THE CHOICES YOU MAKE DEPICT YOUR FUTURE. — Paul Levas

Some part of us still believes that men should kill. — Robin Skelton

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy. — Liv Tyler

Sadly, some folks don't live . . . they merely exist. — Frank Sonnenberg

I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions. — Catherine Breillat

The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene. — Catherine Breillat

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. — Frank Luntz

If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films. — Catherine Breillat