D.J. Weaver Quotes

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.

I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board.

James Cameron thinks we can do anything. He'll let you try anything. There are very few geniuses in the world, let alone in our business, and he's certainly one of them.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

I consider myself very much a team player.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I'm always the last person they go to with a sequel, because I'm the most skeptical. You know, I'm very proud of what we've done, and I don't want to screw up our series.

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

Acting as a career is a long term thing and that work is kind of progressive and you can build on a career. It's part of the great tradition of the theater to me.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

As the Weaver, so is the Thread

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.

If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!

Mr. Brundy, " she said with a nod, making the most perfunctory of curtsies to her father's guest.He made no move to take her hand, but merely bowed and responded in kind. "Lady '

Know that I love you immensely, and you hurry home.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

No escape--like life itself.

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.

There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.

Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy, black sheep, the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love

Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances

I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion.

As long as I’ve known her, she’s seen the very best version of me, even when I didn’t believe that guy existed.

If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

He shrugged. 'I know you're the type''Type?''The type that doesn't let things go

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.