Kinberg Quotes & Sayings

Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back. — Simon Kinberg

Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long. — Simon Kinberg

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker. — Simon Kinberg

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges. — Simon Kinberg

I've always been curious what the negotiation is because obviously there's certain movies that every film wants a trailer on, like Star Wars, and I don't know how Disney makes the decisions as to what it does and doesn't put on there. I'm assuming that whatever movies are the same studio as the film get first priority, but then everybody else is fighting for the remaining spots. — Simon Kinberg

One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film. — Simon Kinberg

I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies. — Simon Kinberg

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy. — Simon Kinberg

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years. — Erin McKean

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs. — Simon Kinberg

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else. — Simon Kinberg

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made. — Simon Kinberg

You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early. — Jean Webster

I just want to keep learning. — Simon Kinberg

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies. — Pierce Brosnan

Yes, one whose faith is continually stimulated by the upward look gives no ground to the attempted encroachment of despair. No matter how great the trouble or how dark the outlook, a quick lifting of the heart to God in a moment of real actual faith in him will completely alter any situation and turn the darkness of midnight into glorious sunrise. — Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

Both as a filmmaker and as a fan I love the behind-the-scenes stuff, I like it even more than deleted scenes frankly. Especially when you're happy with the movie and you're proud of it, those deleted scenes give you also a sense of the making of the film and the process through which you end up with the final product. — Simon Kinberg

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man. — Charles Portis

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie. — Simon Kinberg

All I can say is, death is a part of life. — Simon Kinberg

For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war! — Bettany Hughes

Tyrants have only one problem in life.
They simply just wanna rule everything. — Toba Beta

I feel pressure as a fan. I don't really feel pressure from the fans, if that makes sense. I worked on other movies, like the X-Men movies, that have big fan followings. And if you start to get lost in those voices, you will be completely lost. I feel the pressure of the 6-year-old me. — Simon Kinberg

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie. — Simon Kinberg

When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you. — Robert Greene