"I like to make pictures about people who make a difference."

-- Jerry Bruckheimer

#Differences Quotes #People Quotes #Making A Difference Quotes

“An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'”

Source : "Midlife and Fantasy at 42 — Claire Messud’s New Novel Resonates". Interview with Heidi Legg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.
“Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.”
“It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.”
“You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”
“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.”
“Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.”
“God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.”
“There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they'd introduced me, I saw that there's a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don't. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.”

Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.100, Penguin

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