On Time Quotes

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

Dogs are joiners; if they were guys, their idea of a good time would be to attend an Elks luncheon.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it

Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.

A lot of time we didn't know where we were going or how it was going to transition from fishnets into hip-hop ... But it's worked out. We believe in what we do and I think people get that.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.

Time's going to pass anyway, so it's prioritizing what to do with that.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.

It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Little decisions were made, every day. In this movie [The Hunger Games], we really focused on Cinna and we didn't get time to focus on the other stylist.

By the time I was eight I was taking classical piano lessons and I wanted to be a concert pianist. But that didn't work out. I graduated from high school and my formal education ended.

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

The very first time I realized what unconditional love meant ; was the very first time I held each one of my children in my arms. It was love at first sight.

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.