Ed Roland Quotes

One man's creativity is another's brain damage.

Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.

Question your answers, Truth has no anger

Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality?

We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

The Text is not a definitive object.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'

I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.

I always try to convince people that there has to be a lot of material about the subject matter, so they created a couple of pieces. One is about doomsday prophecies.

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence and talent, but I knew that he would not stay in that profession.

When it comes to action, I'd say Mel Gibson and Will [Smith] were great.

I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.

It's just one of those things. Everybody wants to do it, but it's really difficult. People had to wait for "Indy 4" for a decade, and the reason is because of the people involved.

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.