quotes about Castaway

“If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.”

“You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other”

“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”

“When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.”

“Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.”

“Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

“Its difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesnt matter if youre talking vampire movies or Dawn of the Dead or The Thing or Escape From New York. Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.”

“Some people in Hollywood think I'm nuts with this bodybuilding stuff. They'll say, 'You're getting too big. You'll hurt your career.' But they don't understandthat high that comes from a workout, the challenge, and the personal victory.”

“I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.”

“Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.”

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