Quotes About Impactful

Not everything that's small is insignificant.

If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

You are not easily forgotten.

I receive really powerful personal letters. I think that always takes the cake. It blows me away... some of the comments. Someone will come and I sense their whole tone and energy when they're handing me this letter.

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

I try to always bring topics to the table that matter, topics that I think need to be discussed and reflected on.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

With a few people one's life, too much happens emotionally-more than even makes sense to happen, given how little has actually occurred. Such people are deeply igniting in a way that others are not. This igniting always happens in the very first instant and never goes away. No stupidities can destroy the igniting, so even if those two people never meet again, a connection always remains.

The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

Use power words, like "dramatically," "explosive," "fastest growing," "most well respected." Power words go a very long way to capturing someone's attention and establishing yourself as an expert.

Et sa chanson ne ressemblait en rien à toutes celles que, ici, on avait l'habitude d'entendre. C'était une complainte, très vieille et très lente, d'une simplicité terrible et dont chaque mot tombait un à un, comme ces cailloux qu'on jette dans une eau étale et qui la font trembler longtemps, ride sur ride, onde sur onde.

I am looking at characters that will stay with people, that they will remember. Characters that are relevant.

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.

Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11, it remains the most poleaxeing public event, news so shocking it made me shake, and drove everything else from my mind for days.

I want people, when they remember me, to think of the Hall of Pain, when I was catching guys, 275 pounds. Picking up Big Show, close to 500 pounds, over my head and driving him through a table.

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to.

I want to do films that will be remembered, not run-of-the-mill stuff where I stand behind looking pretty as a picture.

Such films that the audiences remembers 10-15 years after they released come by rarely.