Rie Rasmussen famous quotes

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Writing #Character #Personality

I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Want #Able #Compromise

Honestly when you do it black and white, you really have to work your ***** off. Because if you make it, make it good. Otherwise, don't pretend.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Black And White #Ass #Honestly

I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Fun #Who I Am #Two

I'm not ill-informed about movies. I like movies that take it to that next step.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Next Steps #Next #Steps

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Years #Names #Long

I'm always on the road, and there's a very male-dominated energy where I am. There's that aggressive energy surrounding me, all the time. So, in personal peace and harmony, I've totally made a gazillion compromises.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Energy #Males #Compromise

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Zoos #Passion #Night

If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.
-- Rie Rasmussen

#Coffee #Passion #Rad

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".