Winterbottom Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist. — Michael Winterbottom

Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you. — Solange Nicole

I'm a fan of music from all over the world. — Michael Winterbottom

I've got one grandson gone to MIT. Another grandson had been in the American school here. Because he was dyslexic, and we then didn't have the teachers to teach him how to overcome or cope with his dyslexia, so he was given exemption to go to the American school. He speaks like an American. He's going to Wharton. — Lee Kuan Yew

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it. — Michael Winterbottom

As an experienced wallflower, Violet Winterbottom knew to stake her ground and guard it. She'd — Tessa Dare

I still enjoy watching films more than making them. — Michael Winterbottom

Our moral economy went bankrupt long before our financial one. — Steve Maraboli

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea. — Michael Winterbottom

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. — Michael Winterbottom

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations that serve the characters. It's just much easier when you are walking down the street with your actors to do that in a real street that's still open with people on it, rather than to close it off and bring in extras. — Michael Winterbottom

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful. — Michel De Montaigne

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with. — Angelina Jolie

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it. — Pat Summitt

When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you. — Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century. — Denis O'Hare

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them. — Michael Winterbottom

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw. — Alice Cooper

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? — Joel Barlow

I prefer to watch people. — Michael Winterbottom

I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice. — Sharon Creech

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! — Idries Shah

When you dance, you don't sweat. You glow. — Didi

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting. — Michael Winterbottom

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. — Michael Winterbottom