Sally Menke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

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