Chris Terrio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
-- Chris Terrio

#Lasts #Strange #Lifestyle
And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
-- Chris Terrio

#Thinking #Organization #Sometimes
I need eclectic people in my life.
-- Chris Terrio

#People #Needs #Eclectic
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
-- Chris Terrio

#Debate #Film #Internals
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
-- Chris Terrio

#Lonely #Depressing #Writing
In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.
-- Chris Terrio

#Media #Iran #Play
The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.
-- Chris Terrio

#Years #Organization #Way
You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.
-- Chris Terrio

#Writing #Character #People
Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.
-- Chris Terrio

#Jobs #Revolutionary

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customersâ€™ lifestyles.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Chris Terrio famous quotes

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