S. Jones Quotes

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.

Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

The universe does not make sense without God.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

I wish to emphasize that there are no secrets to golf.

Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.