Dahan Dahan Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same. — Olivier Dahan

Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine. — Richard Rohr

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today. — Bob Newhart

The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper ... It's a fact; it's reality. — Dan Bartlett

It's intuition, isn't it? Depression is intuition that I don't express, and if I just express those feelings, no matter how nuts they seem, there's no need for depression. — S. Kelley Harrell

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel. — Olivier Dahan

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. — Olivier Dahan

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general. — Olivier Dahan

On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude. — Thomas Love Peacock

I don't read the critics. — Olivier Dahan