Christophe Honore quotes

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
-- Christophe Honore

#Life Is #Difficult #1960s

I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans 45 years. I had a great desire to make another musical, but this time I wanted to be more ambitious.
-- Christophe Honore

#Years #Long #Musical

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.
-- Christophe Honore

#Actors #Unexpected #Let Me

I'm someone who is pretty modest and doesn't like to talk about my love stories. Songs bring a lyrical quality to it, simply. It allows the audience to perceive the characters' love life in a way that is much more obvious than it might have been.
-- Christophe Honore

#Song #Love Life #Quality

Even if I sometimes have some somewhat negative thoughts, for instance, if I see them in somebody else's movie, I feel jealous and possessive.
-- Christophe Honore

#Jealous #Negative #Sometimes

Life is like an analogy.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

The difficult thing with quotes on the internet is verifying them

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.