Desiree Akhavan quotes
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“Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: dailydead.com
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“Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.”
-- Desiree AkhavanSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.”
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“Everything comes to the man who won't wait.”
Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.58, tredition
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books
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“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
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