Christopher Quotes

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

What feeds me destroys me.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

Every great story deserves a great ending

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.