Kotcheff Quotes & Sayings

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. — Ayn Rand

Did You Exchange A Walk On Part In The War For A Lead Role In A Cage? — Pink Floyd

Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz. — Bassam Tibi

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films. — Ted Kotcheff

In my own life I've found it to be true that when I hold on to the wrong things, the wrong things hold on to me. — Emily P. Freeman

Repeating the same behavior will just get you the same results. "As — Spencer Johnson

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. — William E. Gladstone

A great artist ... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. — Ted Kotcheff

Isn't that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is? — Tracy Guzeman

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. — Ted Kotcheff

Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life. — Mary Roach

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are. — Henry Ward Beecher

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. — Ted Kotcheff

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. — Ted Kotcheff

A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair — Charles Blair

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity. — Ted Kotcheff

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film. — Ted Kotcheff

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. — Ted Kotcheff

When there's an elephant in the room introduce him. — Randy Pausch

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see. — Ted Kotcheff

If I stay much longer, I think I will have fallen in love with you. — Lindsay Chamberlin