Soderlund Wood Quotes & Sayings

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Our lives are lived between madness and secrets ... Our secrets make us who we are. - Derek Quinn — G.J. Paterson

We spend our lives invoking upon ourselves imagined necessities, creating God in the image of our own fears - and all the while, he is beating us over the head with the balloon of grace and the styrofoam baseball bat of a vindicating judgment. The history of salvation is slapstick all the way, right up to and including the end. — Robert Farrar Capon

I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring my world and my friends, and a lot of them happen to be gay. — Jamie Babbit

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast. — Mark Pagel

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you. — John Mayer

Genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. — Austin Kleon

All men are brothers. Hence war. — Simon Munnery

Secrets never leave you in peace, however much you wish or pray. — James Clavell

A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown. — Carolyn Brown

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. — Manuel Puig

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect. — Amy Lee

sometimes, silence can be very loud — Lorraine Heath