Jon Favreau Quotes

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

Jon Favreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1966

Topics

WorkSchoolPeopleAppreciateYou

I do make films for personal reasons.

Andrew Haigh

PersonalMakeReasonsFilms

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

Michael Baden

ManOverJewishGoingWhoIdentify

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

John Twelve Hawks

ThoughtsFreeNeverWithoutActions

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

John Podhoretz

I AmKnowConfusionShowLyrics

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

Steven Millhauser

WorldRepetitionWayBecomeDislike

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Tori Amos

AloneMeWritingPlayLivingRoom

The States still has the best audiences by far.

Robin Trower

BestFarStillStatesAudiences

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Ruth Negga

GoodArtPeopleBetterConnection

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

Mike Birbiglia

WritingStartSomeoneHandsYou

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Mick Jagger

PeopleCareThoughtfulGetVery

I have someone else clean my house so that it will actually get cleaned, and I let kids in my house survive on Peeps and 'SpongeBob.'

Julia London

SurviveSomeoneHouseWillClean

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

Clare Balding

GoodPeopleMeBadGood And BadSay

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