Moreau Quotes & Sayings

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life. — Marguerite Moreau

Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily? — Basil Moreau

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. — Jeanne Moreau

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed. — Gustave Moreau

Bearing witness from the sides of the room, ten or more lepers shouted at the bizarre scene, "Diable! Diable!" And then chants of some sort, or prayers, followed by more shouts of "Diable!" They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones. — Cole Alpaugh

Liberation didn't solve anything. It just opened up the doors to greed. Some people mix up sex now as if they were eating or drinking like crazy. — Jeanne Moreau

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. — Gustave Moreau

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one. — Jeanne Moreau

There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec. — Pierre Moreau

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you. — Jeanne Moreau

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give? — Jeanne Moreau

Christians better reflect God's glory and most effectively worship him when they fix their sights on enjoying God and find their deepest satisfaction in relating to and serving him (see Piper 1986). — A. Scott Moreau

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. — Jeanne Moreau

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character. — Marguerite Moreau

I, like balloon animal hacks everywhere, can only make one animal so far. It is a LEGO version of the Island of Dr. Moreau, wherein I have brick-engineered a pig-camel, a dog-camel, and a camel with wheels. These monstrosities are quickly torn apart, and I wonder if I have some unresolved camel issues. — Jonathan Bender

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems. — Marguerite Moreau

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater. — Marguerite Moreau

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

We started out as far to the left as we could. — Marguerite Moreau

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age. — Jeanne Moreau

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. — Jeanne Moreau

We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven. — Basil Moreau

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it. — Jeanne Moreau

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that? — Jeanne Moreau

You're responsible for yourself as an actress, you know that your personal growth goes through that alchemy, and you give as much importance to your life as you do to your acting. — Jeanne Moreau

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening. — Jeanne Moreau

Think colour! Know how to imagine it! — Gustave Moreau

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. — Jeanne Moreau

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. — Gustave Moreau

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? — Jeanne Moreau

With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story. — Richard Stanley

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago. — Jeanne Moreau

They had certain Fixed Ideas implanted by Moreau in their minds which absolutely bounded their imaginations. They really were hypnotized, had been told certain things were impossible, and certain things were not to be done, and these prohibitions were woven into the texture of their minds beyond any possibility of disobedience or dispute. — H.G.Wells

I could live without acting ... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was. — Jeanne Moreau

Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together. — Jeanne Moreau

Nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find? — Jeanne Moreau

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. — Jeanne Moreau

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares? — Jeanne Moreau

In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love. — Jeanne Moreau

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy. — Marguerite Moreau

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". Source: Wikipedia — H.G.Wells

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it. — Jeanne Moreau

My favorite moment in Jeanne Moreau's latest movie
a comedy called The Summer House
takes place in a kitchen, when she proclaims that every human has something to cry about. When mocked by the owner of the kitchen and pressed to say what it is that we have to cry about, she tosses back her head of flaming red hair and says, The winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity. — Anne Lamott

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes. — Jeanne Moreau

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surrounds. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never dies, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence, begun in agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau
and for what? It was the wantonness of it that stirred me. — H.G.Wells

Life has to flow. But if you start worrying about it, you block time. — Jeanne Moreau

I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me. — Jeanne Moreau

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. — Jeanne Moreau

Over the last 20 years, everyone who interviews me feels compelled to ask at least one question about 'The Island of Dr. Moreau.' — Richard Stanley

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent. — Jeanne Moreau

Wow,' says Jonah, leaning his head on an elbow. Do you say 'Thanks' when someone says 'Wow'? I don't know so I play safe and ask 'Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?' Gentle — David Mitchell

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective. — Marguerite Moreau

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories. — Marguerite Moreau

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. — Marguerite Moreau

I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon the floor. — H.G.Wells

It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames. — Jeanne Moreau

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it. — Marguerite Moreau

My life is very exciting now. — Jeanne Moreau

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me. — Jeanne Moreau

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over. — Jeanne Moreau

The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added.

"None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty. — Lisa Shearin

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. — Gustave Moreau

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom. — Jeanne Moreau

The urge to impose a single classification on SF ignores the generic hybridity of many novels: incorporation of the Gothic in The Island of Dr Moreau, of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Forbidden Planet, and so on. The rise of film coincides with the emergence of science fiction. The relation between SF fiction and film has included an ongoing fascination with spectacle and extraordinary special effects like those pioneered in Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904). — David Seed

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? — Jeanne Moreau

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia. — Jeanne Moreau

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. — Jeanne Moreau

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot. — Jeanne Moreau

The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve. — Camille Paglia

You should not separate your life from what you do. — Jeanne Moreau

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. — Gustave Moreau

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness. — Basil Moreau

Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great task. Weighing them in his hand, thick, closely printed, squat, he would consider with some apprehension the number of pages, the length of the chapters, then venture into them, a bit reluctant at the beginning, without any desire to perform the initial chore of remembering the names, catching the drift of the story; then he would entrust himself to it, running along the lines, crossing the grid of the uniform page, and beyond the leaden print the flame and fire of battle appeared, the cannonball that, whistling through the sky, fell at the feet of Prince Andrei, and the shop filled with engravings and statues where Frederic Moreau, his heart in his mouth, was to meet the Arnoux family. Beyond the surface of the page you entered a world where life was more alive than here on this side ... — Italo Calvino

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes. — Marguerite Moreau

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school. — Marguerite Moreau

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist. — Jeanne Moreau

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions. — Marguerite Moreau

Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully. — H.G.Wells

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body. — Jeanne Moreau

They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute assurance in my own mind that the Hyena-Swine was implicated in the rabbit-killing. A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form. — H.G.Wells

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. — Patti Smith

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love. — Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change. — Jeanne Moreau

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else. — Jacqueline Bisset

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? — Jeanne Moreau

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. — Jeanne Moreau

Life doesn't end at 30. — Jeanne Moreau

A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures. This Law they were perpetually repeating, I found, and - perpetually breaking. — H.G.Wells

Living is risking. — Jeanne Moreau

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have. — Marguerite Moreau

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. — H.G.Wells

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening. — Jeanne Moreau

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish. — Basil Moreau

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians. — Basil Moreau

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. — Jeanne Moreau

You suffer when you give birth, it doesn't matter, it's nature. They tell you, oh, those hormone pills, they're terrible, you'll get cancer. But when it comes to Viagra for men, they don't speak about cancer. — Jeanne Moreau

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked. — Marguerite Moreau

Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not? — David Mitchell