Matthijs Van Quotes & Sayings

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. — Confucius

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope. — Henri Nouwen

Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard. — Pearl Zhu

For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients together, you can never oversee what it's gonna taste exactly. So while you're doing that, you're tasting. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Working on a set and working with actors, that's all the same. The moment you're doing it and you're in the moment, you don't have time to think about it. You just have to make it as good as you possibly can on the moment. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal. — Philip Schultz

You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding. — Sandy Woodward

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

The way we consume information leads us to think less and less about more and more. We spend much of our time fixated on secondary questions (usually related to controversial and sensational issues) and very little time exploring the primary questions about our brief stay here on earth. — Matthew Kelly

To believe in something and not live it is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves. — T. E. Hulme

We are born in innocence ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed
these are corruptions. — Laura Z. Hobson

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread. — Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.

Have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be marked by practices that are shameful in their cruelty and lustfulness, and by beliefs that are degraded and intellectually incredible? What else than what we can find could be expected, in the case of people having little knowledge and no secure method of knowing; with primitive institutions, and with so little control of natural forces that they lived in a constant state of fear? — John Dewey

What do you want from me, Snow?"
"Nothing," he says. And he means it, the actual bastard. — Rainbow Rowell

Seen clearly, life without hope is hell, but Hell without fear is a fairground attraction. — Matthijs Van Boxsel

Her sublimity. And that belief had remained with her, I make out, till the — Henry James

Your suffering is real, but those who trust the Lord will find life even in the midst of death. — Joe Thorn

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation. — Hugh Dalton