Ed Roland Quotes

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Do not fear. Some things will never change.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.

There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

The necessary condition for an image is sight.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just know they like the song.

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.