C. L. R. James Quotes

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

I have an animal friendly Bible.

I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and tickle them.

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.

When you listen to Prince you have no idea what decade it's from. It's beyond time.

I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against ISIS. It is a threat to all civilized nations.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

We are going to have to continue to keep the pressure on the enemy. There is no room for complacency on this.

Right now, Russia's future should be wedded to Europe. Why they see NATO as a threat is beyond me. Clearly, NATO is not a threat.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.

I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

My family is my career.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."