Christine Swanson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.
-- Christine Swanson

#People #Interesting #Creative
Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at home.
-- Christine Swanson

#Home #People #Water
On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.
-- Christine Swanson

#Directors #Problem #Film
Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.
-- Christine Swanson

#School #Motherhood #Goal
Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.
-- Christine Swanson

#Actors #Shooting #Faces

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

Christine Swanson famous quotes

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