Mrs Winterbottom Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist. — Michael Winterbottom

I'm a fan of music from all over the world. — Michael Winterbottom

I see life as a waste. You grow up. Get a job. Have a family. Retire. Then die. But there's one thing worth living for and that's love and it always will be. It will be happiness with someone you can't live without. Someone to have silly arguments with and laugh about. Someone you can grow old with. Someone to recognize your scars and understand them. That's how I see life — Heather Sally

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it. — Michael Winterbottom

As an experienced wallflower, Violet Winterbottom knew to stake her ground and guard it. She'd — Tessa Dare

I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home. — Jesse Eisenberg

I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person just by seeing shining specks of light a million miles away. Now when I stare at them, I feel nothing. I don't believe in them anymore. — Beth Revis

Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you're hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you ... Fear is a friend of exceptional people. — Cus D'Amato

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. — Michael Winterbottom

If I be just a page torn out of a book,
May I sail forever over the oceans blue,
Float over the treetops and the mountains too,
Drift across the valleys and the flowers look,
Until at last, I rest and kiss the morning dew. — Nancy B. Brewer

I still enjoy watching films more than making them. — Michael Winterbottom

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea. — Michael Winterbottom

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. — Michael Winterbottom

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras. — Michael Winterbottom

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with. — Angelina Jolie

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you. — Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century. — Denis O'Hare

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them. — Michael Winterbottom

I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be. — Sarah J. Maas

I prefer to watch people. — Michael Winterbottom

I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice. — Sharon Creech

When she sings that song you're with that elderly couple in that pub in Deptford and the mundane becomes romantic and beautiful and I think that's probably the great thing about any sort of paintings or music or something, is just when nothing becomes everything — Jools Holland

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues. — Alfred Molina

Why would I ever search out someone who abandoned me? Someone who had no regard for any of us, who ran because he's too much of a damn coward to stand up to his family! — Alexandra Bracken

In a lonely and commercial world, sanctuaries still matter... (they) continue to speak to the deep desire for a set-apart place to rest and pray. — Sara Miles

Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters — Janna Cachola

So you see, a man's history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion. — John Shirley

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms. — Dick Durbin

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting. — Michael Winterbottom