Patricia Rozema famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome. ... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.
-- Patricia Rozema

#Jobs #Believe #Emotional
Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?
-- Patricia Rozema
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work ... for instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.
-- Patricia Rozema

#Religious #Book #Justice
I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the clichÃ© that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.
-- Patricia Rozema

#Husband #Want #Terrible

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.
Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Patricia Rozema famous quotes

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