Tom Noonan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
-- Tom Noonan

#Thinking #Play #Going Away
. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not committed to who they are or are indifferent about their life in general, which is how I felt about myself when I wrote it. I had turned 40 and I was unhappy and I wanted to write about that. Dating just became the framework. . . . I like all those fringy, weird, nonverbal, quiet, tiny little things, those powerful interchanges between people, things that go unsaid, that people know are happening all the time but nobody wants to talk about. That's what I want to make movies about.
-- Tom Noonan

#Powerful #Writing #Ideas
Making bad people seem human is the key to making them really scary.
-- Tom Noonan

#Keys #People #Scary
Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.
-- Tom Noonan

#Keys #People #Scary

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.
Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

Tom Noonan famous quotes

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