Schindler List Quotes & Sayings

I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film — Embeth Davidtz

They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing ... I bought the food for everyone. — Emilie Schindler

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days. — Gary Hart

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made ... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan'. — Steven Spielberg

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer. — Steven Spielberg

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. — Liam Neeson

The visual of Satan isn't one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it's the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling. — Todd Stocker

On Asking to Have the Candy Passed to Me During Schindler's List What do you want - the candy? They're throwing people in the fucking gas chamber, and you want a Skittles? — Justin Halpern

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years. — Douglas Coupland

Think [Schindler's List] was about the Holocaust?... That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. 'Schindler's List' is about 600 who don't. Anything else? — Stanley Kubrick

My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with until, finally, a couple years ago, we had an intervention. And we had a rabbi come into the home, had him walk her through the history of the Jewish people, and then he made her watch "Schindler's List." And after that, my mom did a complete 180. Now she can't believe it only happened once. — Anthony Jeselnik

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line. — Hill Harper

The List is Life.", Schindler's List — Thomas Keneally

Visualizing is meant to be used as a tool to trigger an emotional response within yourself. These emotions then dictate your vibration. — Jennifer O'Neill

There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler's List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace. — Erik Larson

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. — Steven Spielberg

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.' — Maggie Grace

I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. — Henry David Thoreau

If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society. — Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. — Gene Perret

Israel is not just any small country. It is the only small country - the only country, period - whose neighbors publicly declare its very existence an affront to law, morality and religion and make its extinction an explicit , paramount national goal. Iran, Libya, and Iraq conduct foreign policies designed for the killing of Israelis and the destruction of their state. They choose their allies (Hamas, Hezbollah) and develop their weapons (suicide bombs, poison gas, anthrax, nuclear missiles) accordingly. Countries as far away as Malaysia will not allow a representative of Israel on their soil or even permit the showing of 'Schindler's List' lest it engender sympathy for Zion. — Charles Krauthammer

We're using up the Earth. It's almost gone. You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with. — Margaret Atwood

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — Steven Spielberg

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. — Etheridge Knight

THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife — Emilie Schindler