Julian Jarrold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Simple #Want #Pay
My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Philosophy #Believe #Character
If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Drama #Trying #Looks
As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.
-- Julian Jarrold

#People #Directors #Want
The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Never Quit #Mystery #Bottom
I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Character #Bored #Different
There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Character #Bored #Energy
It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.
-- Julian Jarrold

#Interesting #Trying #Too Much

One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Julian Jarrold famous quotes

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