#clockwork

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars. ↗

— David Prowse

#clockwork #director #doors #i #kubrick

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#car #car accident #clockwork #happens #like

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #jem #tessa #will #dog

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #tessa-gray #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #wit

Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #will #cooking

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #the-infernal-devices #will-herondale #love

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#but-this-book-ruined-them #clockwork-princess #cp #love

He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #will-herondale

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#love