Durkin And Durkin Quotes & Sayings

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared. — Sean Durkin

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully. — Sean Durkin

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things. — Sean Durkin

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her. — Sean Durkin

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years. — Martin Durkin

I would like to do a sports movie. — Sean Durkin

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. — Sean Durkin

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life. — Sean Durkin

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal. — Sean Durkin

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. — Sean Durkin

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities. — Sean Durkin

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens. — Sean Durkin

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things. — Sean Durkin

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. — Sean Durkin

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time. — Sean Durkin

You can't write something to please someone. — Sean Durkin

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship. — Sean Durkin

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy. — Sean Durkin

I went to my first college to play soccer. — Sean Durkin

Don't I have a choice in this? But when she looks behind her, the answer is
clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all.
And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa
realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing
in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won't be there. — Neal Shusterman

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people. — Sean Durkin

You have interrupted me four times, Mr. Cramer. My tolerance is not infinite. You would say, of course, that the message would not be published, and in good faith, but your good faith isn't enough. No doubt Mrs. Nesbitt was assured that her name wouldn't become known, but it did. So I reserve the message. I was about to say, it wouldn't help you to find your murderer. Except for that one immaterial detail, you know all that I know, now that you have reached my client. As for what Mrs. Valdon hired me to do, that's manifest. I engaged to find the mother of the baby. They have been at that, and that alone, for more than three weeks - Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Panzer, Mr. Durkin, and Mr. Cather. You ask if I'm blocked. I am. I'm at my wit's end. — Rex Stout

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. — Sean Durkin

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult. — Sean Durkin

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident. — Sean Durkin

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest. — Sean Durkin

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. — Sean Durkin

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine. — Martin Durkin

Filmmaking is a real craft. — Sean Durkin

I'm a believer in film school. — Sean Durkin

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat. — Sean Durkin

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong. — Martin Durkin