Quotes About Denis

'Local Hero' was probably the most enjoyable job I've ever done then or since. It's had a very long shelf life.

There's a cave in this hinterland of Siberia, called Denisova, named after an eighteenth-century eremite called Denis who lived there.

This is the best thing that happens to me all night - a pint of cold Guinness.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.

I hope you slept well, he said. Yes, isn't it lovely? Jenny replied, giving two rapid little nods. But we had such awful thunderstorms last week. Parallel straight lines, Denis reflected, meet only at infinity. He might talk for ever of care-charmer sleep and she of meteorology till the end of time. Did one ever establish contact with anyone? We are all parallel straight lines. Jenny was only a little more parallel than most. They

Denis Johnson's Angels

Martyrs were innumerable, among them, Saint Denis, 3rd century bishop of Paris, who, when beheaded, calmly picked up his severed head and walked several miles to the site of the abbey that bears his name while preaching a sermon on repentance. It seems a long way but, as the French regularly point out, 'c'est le premier pas qui compte', it's the first step that counts.

The man most active in bringing together these twin forces for divine order and proportion was Abbot Suger, head of the famous abbey of Saint Denis near Paris.

I rather like contemporary art.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.

The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.