Philippe Claudel Famous Quotes & Sayings
31 Philippe Claudel Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.— Philippe Claudel
My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.— Philippe Claudel
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.— Delphine De Vigan
They shall arrive in a murmur— Philippe Claudel
And shall disappear into fog and earth
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.— Arthur Golden
If the books are selling, the money will follow.— Larry Kirshbaum
Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.— Philippe Claudel
Oh little Poupchette, some may tell you that you are nobody's child, a child of defilement, a child begotten in fear and horror. Some may tell you that you are a child of abomination conceived in abomination, a tainted child, a child polluted long before you were born. Do not pay attention to them, my little sweetheart, please do not listen to them; listen to me. I say you are my child and I love you. I sometimes say that out of horror, beauty and purity and grace are born. I say I am your father for ever. I say the loveliest rose can bloom in contaminated soil. I say you are the dawn, the light of all my tomorrows, and the only thing that matters is the promise you represent. I say you are my luck and my forgiveness. My darling Poupchette, I say you are my whole life.— Philippe Claudel
It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.— Philippe Claudel
I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.— William J. Clinton
An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.— Philippe Claudel
I think about the sincerity of my writing. I try to be true, to pose questions. Shake people up a bit and make them look in a direction they wouldn't normally.— Philippe Claudel
In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.— Philippe Claudel
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.— Philippe Claudel
Fear Wakes You Up" -Four— Veronica Roth
When you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.— Philippe Claudel
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.— Steven Wilson
We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
It was the fear others felt, much more than hatred or some other emotion, that had made a victim of me. It was because fear had seized some of them by the throat that I was handed over to torturers and executioners, and it was also fear that had turned those same torturers, formerly men like me, into monsters; fear that had caused the seeds of evil, which we all carry, to germinate inside them.— Philippe Claudel
In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.— Philippe Claudel
The foundation, the motivation of a life of humility, is the example of Jesus Christ's humble life and sacrificial death on the cross.— Matt Chandler
This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.— Irene Cara
And I'm not a poet: but never despair!— Aldous Huxley
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.
Then sudden Felagund there swaying— J.R.R. Tolkien
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape,
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.— Philippe Claudel
I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.— Robyn Schneider
I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I write novels I also use techniques which can run counter to those that a novelist would use.— Philippe Claudel
You cannot be chosen as a winner without contest. Winners have many families but nobody wants to associate with a loser. I will prepare myself and one day my chance will come.— Osunsakin Adewale
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager tranquility, and bowl me like a little ball in a great game of skittles? God? Well, in that case, if He exists, if He really exists, let Him hide His face. Let Him put His two hands on His head, and let Him bow down. It may be, as Peiper used to teach us, that many men are unworthy of Him, but now I know that He, too, is unworthy of most of us, and that if the creature is capable of producing horror, it's solely because his Creator has slipped him the recipe for it.— Philippe Claudel
You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush despite my best efforts, flustered, frustrated.— Tahereh Mafi
"Blondie said they destroyed my clothes."
"Blondie?" Blond man is offended.
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.— Alfred Korzybski
