Zeitlin Quotes & Sayings

Local casting is just something I love doing. — Benh Zeitlin

The uncreative will always waste their energies on the impossible. Be unable to recognize the boundaries, how much of the spiritual the objects can bear and assume. — Carl Einstein

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Six Lines

I know that in this world no one needs me,
me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard
Who needs a poem, especially in Yiddish?

Only what is hopeless on this earth has beauty
and only the ephemeral is godly
and humility is the only true rebellion — Aaron Zeitlin

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world - most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence. — Wayne Koestenbaum

Besides, a bald cap would have never looked real. — Persis Khambatta

...he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know. — Philip K. Dick

It was a genuine pleasure to research and write about a woman from whom, as Life magazine correspondent David Zeitlin put it, there is no letting down — Estella M. Chung

The German stamp on Wisconsin endures in the state's commitment to efficient agriculture, hard work, education, culture, and to good citizenship and political freedom - all of which were an integral part of the German immigrant's language. — Richard H. Zeitlin

That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that. — Benh Zeitlin

Water efficiency, recycling, and other local supplies will help California flourish in a drier future. — Frances Beinecke

The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved. — Ilana Mercer

We look for evidence of the divine and we find it in nature, in art, in literature, in music in film, so, rather than fear the surrounding culture, and the surrounding cities which predictably results in a bunker mentality the emerging congregation embraces the culture and expects to find God in it the emerging congregation embraces the culture recognizing that its not all pretty but it embraces the culture and even then expects to find god in it because there is nowhere god isn't. there are many places where the church isn't but I don't think that means there are places where god isn't. — John Middendorf

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made. — Benh Zeitlin

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh. — Benh Zeitlin

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan. — J.G. Ballard

I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make. — Benh Zeitlin

People teaches children how to be in a relationship, beginning with the ability to have a conversation. — Sherry Turkle

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. — Benh Zeitlin

The second point I want to make is that you are right; the boy does indeed have to learn human customs. He must be taught to take off his shoes in a mosque and to wear his hat in a synagogue and to cover his nakedness when taboo requires it, or our tribal shamans will burn him for deviationism. But, child, by the myriad deceptive aspects of Ahriman, don't brainwash him in the process. Make sure he is cynical about each part of it. — Robert A. Heinlein