C.D. Payne Quotes

I love carelessly, live respectfully, speak intelligently, work passionately, trust recklessly, get hurt easily and bounce back effortlessly.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

The artist should always be the student.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

I would definitely like to be a slightly aging action hero with a smart mouth and have a little bit of fun.

Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.

The perception of what we as professors provide has changed. Constant and demanding e-mails are just another manifestation of what our society has become.

Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience.

Being unique is highly over rated.

My wife fosters dogs, to try and give these lost puppies a chance to get adopted. I'm grateful to my wife for that, she brings that element to my family and my kids get to understand what that means.

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.

People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

False hope is the bread - and - butter of my existence, the only thing that keeps me going.

Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.