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Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 30, 1966

Topics

Life Meaning Easy Cinema Way Always

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

Joe Gebbia

You Know Your Users Experiencing

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

Jennifer Stone

Funny Voice Tools Camera You Acting

My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

Andrew Sean Greer

Fashion Grandmother Out Even Beehive

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

John Wooden

Power Best Trying You Try Never

Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

Mike Pence

Freedom Succeed Free Capitalism Fail

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

Michael W. Smith

People Believe I Believe Afraid Used

I've learned to respect the whimsical.

Michael Leunig

Respect Whimsical Learned

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

People America Royalty

To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later.

Joseph Rotblat

World Dangerous Will Nuclear Weapons

I don't think I'd ever be able to give up the spotlight.

Chris Jericho

Think Up Spotlight Give Able Ever

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

Clayton M. Christensen

Doing Personal Will Always Cost

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Ciaran Hinds

You Done Territory Carefully