Quotes & Sayings About Pleasantville

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong. — Laozi

Do you have any idea how worried I've been?" she said, crossing to him. "I didn't know if you were dead or being held hostage, or if you'd been eaten by one of the queen's soldiers. It's been driving me mad not knowing."
He quirked an eyebrow at her.
She scowled. "Don't comment on that."
"I wouldn't dare. — Marissa Meyer

India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world. — Narendra Modi

If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville. — Billy Rose

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield

Most people just say 'sorry'. But handing over your ex for painful handling was so much better. — Suzanne Wright

If TV sitcoms idealized the American suburbs of the 1960s, the works of the artistic elite disparaged them ceaselessly, then and now. The songs of Pete Seeger, novels like Revolutionary Road, the stories of John Cheever, movies like Pleasantville and American Beauty, television series like Mad Men: in all of them, that long-ago land of lawns and houses is depicted as a country of stultifying conformity and cultural emptiness, sexual hypocrisy, alcoholism, and spiritual despair. Privilege murders the senses there, the creatives tell us. Gender roles strangle freedom. Family life turns the heart of adventure to ashes. There's bigotry and gossip and dangerous liaisons behind every closed door. Oh, the soul, the human soul! In the suburbs of fiction, she is forever dying. But — Andrew Klavan

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.' — Gary Ross

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach

The other thing that's happened with writing is that I'm not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years ago, I feared that sitting down with paper and pencil revealed too much desire and that for such ambition I would be punished. My vocabulary would contract anorexia, ideas would be born autistic, even titles would not come to flirt with me anymore. I suppose this was tied to that internal judge, the serpent who eats her own tail. She insinuates you're not good enough; you believe her and try less, ratifying her assessment; so you try even less; and on and on. This snake survives on your dying. Finally, now, the elided words of my wisest writing teacher, the poet David Wojahn, make sense. "Be ambitious," he said, "for the work." Not for the in-dwelling editor. That bitch was impossible to please anyway. — Marsha L. Larsen

I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up. — Gary Ross

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment. — Gautama Buddha

I like Columbus, Ohio, because it's Pleasantville for real. They have the nicest white people I have ever met, and I mean that! — Bobby Lee

The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville. — Jefferson Bethke

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. — Gary Ross