Richard Ben-Veniste Quotes

And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.