#ten

I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway. ↗

— Christian Bale

#fearless #i #recognize #scared #should

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. ↗

— Christian Bale

#comedies #doubt #enjoy #get #i

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops. ↗

— Christian Bale

#crops #grow #i #i can #i do

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actor #because #confident #director #everything

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is. ↗

— Christian Bale

#been #clearly #disrespectful #even #i

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. ↗

— Christian Bale

#between #central #character #comes #differentiate

Biography should be written by an acute enemy. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#biography #enemy #should #written

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#ambition #become #career #certainly #course

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#fiction #film #imaginations #intensely #large