Mike Mendez quotes

“I love to travel, it doesn't matter where I am in the world, usually there's a good time to be had.”
-- Mike Mendez

#World Quotes #Matter Quotes #Good Times Quotes

“I've always wanted to do blow with Genghis Khan, 'bet that guy knows how to party. I also think a bottle of wine with Hitchcock would've been cool. Also doing shots with the baby Jesus, bet that guy knows how to party.”
-- Mike Mendez

#Baby Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Party Quotes

“It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.”
-- Mike Mendez

#Epic Quotes #Rolling Quotes #Balls Quotes

“It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.”
-- Mike Mendez

#Fun Quotes #Bears Quotes #Burden Quotes

“There have been a lot of horror anthologies as of late; movies like V/H/S and The ABCs of Death have brought the anthology back in style. We sort of felt like, "Why don't we do one and do our own thing?"”
-- Mike Mendez

#Style Quotes #Horror Quotes #Anthology Quotes

“You know it's going to be difficult because you're working with friends, but at the same it's like, well, they're your friends and everybody's cool, so even if there are rough spots we'll get through it. And I'm happy to say we did.”
-- Mike Mendez

#Spots Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Rough Quotes

“We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted to just find a different way [for Tales of Halloween]. And being that unity was what the whole spirit of the project was - unity and friendship and community.”
-- Mike Mendez

#Halloween Quotes #Community Quotes #Way Quotes

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”

“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

Source : "Stephen Curry Talks About His Christian Faith in MVP Acceptance Speech" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. May 6, 2015.

“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”

“That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.”

“The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.”

“When you are on a down swing, do not feel bad. Know the swing will change and things will get better.There are good times coming.”