Bruno Dumont Quotes

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Bruno Dumont

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: March 14, 1958

Topics

SpaceMeToo MuchHollywoodLeave

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

Jesse Helms

EducationMoneySupportPeopleTake

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.

Andrew Bird

YourselfBookBetterGetting Better

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

LifeFamilyLoveCharacterMeRoad

Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy, transportation, medical research and military infrastructure.

Jeff Fortenberry

EducationCommunityPurposeMedical

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.

Stella Young

RespectPeopleSocietyDignityPity

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.

Stuart Symington

JobFlyingYouLoseDoneMore

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

Michelle Williams

ThinkLonelyTableBedRatherThan

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

TimeTrustMeYouWantWill

Horses will never be my career. It's just a big passion of mine, and one that will always be there in the background, but football is my main passion and everyone knows that.

Michael Owen

PassionFootballCareerWillNever

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

Michael Moore

SaidMoviesWould

I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'

Lisa Jewell

LoveMarriagePartyPersonalFirst

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

Chris Cooper

MeThinkStillStudioSuspectLot

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