quotes about No Reason

“Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.”

Source : Interview With Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

“No one here likes a wet dog.”

“I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“A saleslady holds up an ugly dress and says, 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?”

“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.”

“Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea...”

“How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.”

“The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.”

“It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.”

“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.