#den

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? ↗

— Brian Greene

#expanse #great #heavens #how #identical

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #centre #existence #god #had

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#based #comedies #different #experience #experiences

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#cinematography #dentist #doing #father #his

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#bag #betrayed #both #confident #create

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#japanese #more #opium #president #states

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#again #anyone #bad #bad guy #certainly

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#any #backgrounds #because #big #big movie

Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. ↗

— Eric Holder

#appear #bin #corpse #courtroom #deal