Ti West Quotes

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can?

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter.

I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Is Not An Economist, She Is A Demographer

Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.

The Innkeepers were two nerds in a dead-end job and then they try to get involved and they get in over their heads, and how does it affect them? That, to me, just seems like what happens to people.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that weird gray area.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.

You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

Sometimes I look at it [Valley of Violence] and go, "How did we do that?" But it's a credit to Ethan [Hawke], he had done White Fang, so Ethan is like, "Oh God, that's right."

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.