Johann Johannsson Quotes

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

I have been told that... time doesn't flow in a straight line in my films. It goes round in a circle. Sometimes people comment that the films remind them of Ozu. Maybe that's right. But in Japan, nobody comments on how time passes in my films. So perhaps that is a different way of thinking.

My parents have always been incredibly supportive, driving me back and forth to Stratford and so on. They realised from an early age that I wouldn't go into medicine because I couldn't do biology and chemistry.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency to occasionally urinate in the refrigerator. You're sure you'll pass Math 106 this time around. You're determined to actually join some clubs this year and not just sit around in your dorm eating spray cheese from a can and watching youtube videos about cats.

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important to us when we're striking poses here. It's very important, it's really great.

Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

It was an emotional roller coaster - going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.