Jan de Bont Quotes

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Jan de Bont

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 22, 1943

Topics

WorkGoodActionStoryThinkYou

I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs in my purse are not for sharing.

Joanna Garcia

HomeSweetSharingHandNeverCandy

What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.

Joe Garcia

PeopleExpandEasierDidSubscribe

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Joely Fisher

GreatMomSkiingCharityYearEvent

Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one's going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore.

John Quelch

LongDownDrinkLong TermGoing

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible.

Stephen Kinzer

PowerImpossibleHandsUpWhoSaudi

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.

Sue Hubbell

PeopleWillRuleMakeHarderAbout

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Mary Ellen Mark

LifeLoveSupportParentsLuckHelp

I left the 'Trib' in 1970 with the feeling that I would never have a career in establishment media of any kind.

Molly Ivins

MediaCareerFeelingKindNeverAny

Only fools are positive.

Moe Howard

PositiveFoolsOnly

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

DepressionBetterSuicideIrony

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

Derek Walcott

TimePoetryNeedAlwaysCritical

I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was Methodist. Double Southern whammy.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

MotherReligionParentsPresent

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