Ramin Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal. — Ramin Bahrani

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings. — Ramin Bahrani

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster

You have to let life come and go. — Ramin Bahrani

The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. — Ramin Bahrani

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings. — Ramin Bahrani

But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indifferent to what has become my true home, a land with no borders and few restrictions, which I have taken to calling "the Republic of Imagination." I think of it as Nabokov's "somehow, somewhere" or Alice's backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know and an indefinable urge to escape the mundane. — Azar Nafisi

Choice starts when we stop recognizing our conditioned patterns linked to our past. Until we are at this point, we are unconscious. — Sydney Malone

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real. — Ramin Bahrani

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time. — Ramin Bahrani

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested. — Ramin Bahrani

What we once found thrilling, we now take for granted - exotic foods, illicit drugs, attractive sex partners. The more you get, the more you want. So things that make us feel good in the moment are doomed to lose some of their luster. Although there's nothing inherently wrong with feeling good in the moment, continually seeking more is obviously not the best path to happiness. — Anonymous

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything. — Ramin Bahrani

We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants. — Ramin Bahrani

James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack. — Sarah J. Maas

A word is a lot. — Etgar Keret

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. — Sigmund Freud

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that. — Ramin Bahrani

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound. — Ramin Bahrani

We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness. — Iyanla Vanzant