Preminger Otto Quotes & Sayings

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong. — Lindsay Lohan

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view. — Otto Preminger

Shadow had promised himself a bath when he got out of prison, and Shadow kept his promises. — Neil Gaiman

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it. — Otto Preminger

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. — Peter Shaffer

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories. — Otto Preminger

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act. — Otto Preminger

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die. — R. Lee Ermey

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right. — Otto Preminger

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it. — Dave Eggers

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat. — Will Rogers

Religion does not stop adolescents from having sex; it only makes them feel bad about about the sex they do have. — Darrel Ray

Cry you little monsters! — Otto Preminger

Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, Otto, let my people go! — Mort Sahl

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available. — Otto Preminger

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another. — Otto Preminger

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth. — Nikola Tesla

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally. — Evelyn Ashford

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart. — Gnaeus Naevius

Isaiah 55:6-13 God's ways and thoughts are infinitely higher than those of the most brilliant human. Yet His words in Scripture communicate well enough to bring about supernatural change in those who hear its truth. The purpose of communication is not to speak, but to be heard and understood. — Sid Buzzell

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes! — Otto Preminger

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right. — Otto Preminger

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them. — Otto Preminger

Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment. — Otto Preminger

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it. — Henry David Thoreau