“You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.” Quote by Christian Bale
“If something's true and sincere, it happens regardless of marketing. The more I talk about it, the more I'm telling people how they should react. And that is an asshole.” PeopleIfsShouldHappensMarketingSincere Author:Christian Bale
“Basically, it's somebody who got stuck having to interview me who really wants to be a novelist, so they're writing these novellas and I was like, "It's not true, that didn't happen, they just made all that up! Why don't they just go ahead and be a novelist instead of bothering with interviewing me?"” WantWritingMadeHappensStuckBotherNovelistsInterviews Author:Christian Bale
“I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"” WantAbleBallsStudiosInterviews Author:Christian Bale
“That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.” WorldHumansCoursesEvilNamesHuman BeingsLevelsSourceDespairHappeningsDefinitionsDisappointmentCorruptionHeavyNewspapersIrony Author:Ridley Scott
“It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.” IdeasMatterFormAliens Author:Ridley Scott
“I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.” ThinkingWould BeBlackDifferencesSpaceImagineOceanIntelligentMudParticlesBumpsMeter Author:Ridley Scott
“Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.” IfsThinkingWayEnoughStoriesFallStrongEasySpecialEffectsWorking ItStrong EnoughScreenplaysFall BackSpecial EffectsTiresome Author:Ridley Scott
“I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.” IfsPlayCharacterRolesDramaConflictWorthwhile Author:Matt Dillon
“I have a very sissy job, where I go to work and get my hair done, and people do my makeup, and I go and say lines and people spoil me rotten. And everyone has that kind of curiosity of how far can you go, how far can you take it. I think it's always good testing yourself.” PeopleThinkingKindDoneJobsLinesHairCuriosityMakeupTestingSpoilRottenSissyTesting Yourself Author:Christian Bale
“Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.” CountryRememberCoursesKeysEuropeRussiaRoutesInvasionPoland Author:W. Averell Harriman