Hannes Holm famous quotes

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.
-- Hannes Holm

#Order #Ideas #World

I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.
-- Hannes Holm

#Writing #Night #Ideas

I got into film in an odd way - when I was 17 years old I participated in a Swedish film as an actor. I think every person at that age should get a role in a film, because during that time you want acceptance, and when you have a role in a film you become an important person. I think about that now, and that was my fantastic starting point.
-- Hannes Holm

#Acceptance #Thinking #Years

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.
-- Hannes Holm

#Talking #Sweden #Disease

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.
-- Hannes Holm

#Writing #Tools #Use

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'
-- Hannes Holm

#Directors #Direct

When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.
-- Hannes Holm

#Shooting

Love can become overused.
-- Hannes Holm

#Overused

I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.
-- Hannes Holm

#Sweden #Locals

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.