Dormael Quotes & Sayings

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are. — Isaac Marion

When I fall in love, I don't know why I fall in love, I just know that I am in love. — Jaco Van Dormael

If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it. — Jaco Van Dormael

In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes. — Jaco Van Dormael

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. — Jaco Van Dormael

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. — Tom Allen

I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life. — William Hudson O'Hanlon

If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next ... resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever. — John R Noe

I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work. — Jane Asher

individuals who experience positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones "become much more resilient to adversity and effortlessly achieve what they once could only imagine. — Kani Ilangovan

A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is. — Jaco Van Dormael

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing
that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I haven't been alive enough. It should be written on every school room blackboard: Life is a playground - or nothing. — Jaco Van Dormael

What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid? — Jenn Cooksey

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there. — Dennis Covington

Certain problems cannot be solved if you are constantly entertained and distracted. — Harlan Coben

The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones others will remember. Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world. — Ayobami Adebayo

Having a big budget, I have no problem with spending the movie. It's fantastic to have a big budget. It gives a lot of time. It gives a lot of freedom. What's difficult is raising the money beforehand, and then when the investor wants the money back, afterwards. — Jaco Van Dormael

Use your enemy's arrows for firewood. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible. — Jaco Van Dormael

The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house. — Chris Geiger

When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear. — Curtis Hutson

When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex. — Jaco Van Dormael

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film. — Jaco Van Dormael