Megaton Quotes & Sayings

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong. — Olivier Megaton

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against. — Frank Oz

No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb. — Theodore Adorno

another billion deaths in the months that followed from mass starvation - from a mere 1.5-megaton regional nuclear war. — Richard Rhodes

I like to discover new things. — Olivier Megaton

Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement — Fethullah Gulen

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. — Ruud Gullit

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it. — Glenn Beck

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers. — Olivier Megaton

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick. — Olivier Megaton

Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great. — Yani Tseng

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can. — Howard Tayler

The most difficult thing to do is drama. — Olivier Megaton

'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody. — Olivier Megaton

When we finally head outside to walk toward the big silver Astro van that will take us to the launch pad, it's that moment everyone knows: flashbulbs pop in the pre-dawn darkness, the crowd cheers, we wave and smile. In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining, an obelisk. In reality, of course, it's a 4.5-megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it. — Chris Hadfield

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be. — Manolo Blahnik

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world. — Olivier Megaton

Instantaneity is photography. — Edgar Degas

Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn't it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone? — Lidia Yuknavitch

Three Moonie 65-megaton hydrogen bombs exploded nearly simultaneously at very high altitude. With no air around the bombs to absorb the initial blast of the explosions, and convert the energy into mechanical shock waves - - all the nuclear energy blasted out in its electromagnetic form. It was a brutally intense pulse of Compton recoil electrons and photoelectrons that created huge electric and magnetic fields that were MURDER on sensitive electronic equipment at tremendous distances. The electro-magnetic fields, coupled with electric and computer systems, producing huge voltage spikes in the circuits and damaging current surges along all signal paths, fusing precision engineered memory and micro-boards and virtual drives and CPUs into fried silicon laced junk! Nanobots to Nanoscrap in Nanoseconds! — @hg47

A bot had to find his own way, and I'd figured out that functioning for function's sake was pointless." - Mack Megaton — A. Lee Martinez

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy. — Frank Miller

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking. — Olivier Megaton

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was released in France first, and it didn't do bad, but not as good as it did in the U.S. — Olivier Megaton

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir. — Olivier Megaton

I'm not a fan of action movies. — Olivier Megaton

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster. — Olivier Megaton

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least. — C.S. Lewis

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now. — Christian Nestell Bovee

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on. — Olivier Megaton

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. — Jeff Carlson

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. — Benjamin Franklin

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things. — Olivier Megaton

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our
President's personal savior, would have personally
dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad? — Meryl Streep

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world. — Olivier Megaton

Branch is stuck all right. He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century. [ ... ] There is also the Warren Report, of course, with its twenty-six accompanying volumes of testimony and exhibits, its millions of words. Branch thinks this is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to Iowa City and lived to be a hundred. — Don DeLillo