Quotes
Authors
Stephen Daldry
"England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents." --
Source : "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.
Stephen Daldry
#Running Quotes
#Silly Quotes
#Garden Quotes
“Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.”
“One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”
“I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.”
“In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”
“The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.”
“Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.”
“After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.”
Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage
“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”