Dogme Quotes & Sayings

The reason for the simplicity isn't disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it. Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed, and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. I try to love it. — Anonymous

I think Dogme was inspiring for quite a few peoples and sort of started a digital movement. Personally, I found it extremely uplifting and fantastic making Dogme movies, but I felt I completed it with 'The Celebration.' I think that was the end of the road on Dogme for me. It was as far as I could go. — Thomas Vinterberg

There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild. — Werner Sombart

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. — Michael Gungor

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz

I know how you guys like to see who's bigger. Feel free to whip them out. I'll be the judge. — Kate Allenton

Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most. — Bram Stoker

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie. — Susanne Bier

Everyone wants to be happy and live mindfully. Books teach us how to resuscitate the body and soul and how to recognize what in our own personal lives is worthy of noticing. Writers' considered opinions and subtle observations regarding the joys, paradoxes, pains, tragedies, and truths of living provide us with a jumpstart in analyzing how best to integrate our personal experiences and disjointed thoughts into a cogent belief system. An artistic person understands their passions demand a struggle. Reading allows me unobtrusively to discover how other people freed themselves from suffering a destructive life of attachment, delusion, and disablement. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It's the way of the world, kid. Go with the winner. — Saul

Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary. — Tom Clancy

Today was different, however. It wasn't every day a woman popped the question to one of her best friends. — Noelle Adams

Just because I believe in evolution doesn't mean I have to approve of it — Kurt Vonnegut

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying. — Francois Fenelon

I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars. — Dylan Thomas

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. — Pierce Brosnan

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. — Josh Billings

I have a slight controversy with the Dogme brethren because I've been saying that rules are to be interpreted; not that I haven't followed the rules, because I don't see the point of submitting yourself to a set of rules if you don't follow them. But having said that, it is always a lot of interpretation. — Susanne Bier

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul. — Orson Scott Card

Dogme is like leading a religious life, in that you are freeing yourself from making certain choices. It makes life easier. — Susanne Bier

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity. — Susanne Bier