English Quotes

I want the score to have a really big voice.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I had no plans to be a director.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

All nature wears one universal grin.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.