Winterbottom V Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day. — Alexander Pope

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

The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character. — Margery Fish

He pushed himself to his feet. "Don't lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but ... " she could see him groping " ... abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers." He took a draught of wine. "I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I've proven I'm no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be ... I could be good to you. — George R R Martin

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

The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture. — Elisabeth Beazley

Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion. — Kobo Abe

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

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

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

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

We need practice to get good at what we do. There is one difference in medicine, though: it is people we practice upon. — Atul Gawande

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

Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World — Eugene Ionesco

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

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice. — Barbara Olson

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive. — John F. Kennedy

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

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. — Johann Georg Zimmermann

And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound. — Sarah Manguso

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree. — Robert Gottlieb

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto. — Josh Turner