Nemes Quotes & Sayings

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film. — Laszlo Nemes

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101. — Nicholas Sparks

We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema. — Laszlo Nemes

When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad ... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad. — Jaime Murray

I'll never get over the fact
that the buildings all light up at night,
and the night comes every night
and without regret we let it go.
We sleep a little and we live.
That's what we do. — Alex Dimitrov

If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight — Ric Ocasek

I really wanted to take the viewer to the 'here and now' regarding the exterminations, and communicate directly in a visceral way. The art of cinema can communicate that way, and that's why I wanted to do it that way. — Laszlo Nemes

There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought. — Elsa Barker

We have seen and do see the type of evil that is within human civilization, and the Holocaust took place in European history during an advanced state of technology and form of civilization, only to become an event in that history that questioned what civilization actually means. — Laszlo Nemes

There are genocidal tendencies that are at the heart of the human potential, and I think if we don't talk about it, we're not preparing ourselves for a better future. — Laszlo Nemes

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. — Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar

When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the middle of hell from Auschwitz, to let the world know what happened. The texts were buried beneath the ground and found after the liberation of the concentration camps. — Laszlo Nemes

If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface. — Laszlo Nemes

We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced. — Laszlo Nemes

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art. — Hal Sparks

We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised. — Laszlo Nemes

I'd always be watching her. And she knew now that she belonged to me. Every breath she took, every step she made, every smile she faked, I'd always be there, watching her, waiting for her. — Jaimie Roberts

Sometimes all we need is only listening to an inner voice and remaining human in a very personal way. But even if it is a personal way, it's still a very valid way - maybe the most valid way. It doesn't have to be a collective experience or someone telling you what to do. The most sacred human experience can be a very personal one. — Laszlo Nemes

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, — Dana Gioia

There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing. — Laszlo Nemes

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. — Booker T. Washington

It has made me better loving you ... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can't think of anything better. It's just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and suddenly the lamp comes in. I had been putting out my eyes over the book of life, and finding nothing to reward me for my pains; but now that I can read it properly I see that it's a delightful story. — Henry James

No post on Sundays," he reminded them cheerfully as he spread marmalade on his newspapers, "no damn letters today - " Something — J.K. Rowling

The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel. — Dan Simmons

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up. — Laszlo Nemes

I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices. — Laszlo Nemes

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. — Anna Quindlen