I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I prefer to work with first-time directors.”
“I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.”
“I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.”
“I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.”
“I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.”
“I prefer to write quotations rather than books.”
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
“I prefer true over happy now.”
“I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.”
“I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.”
“I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.”
“I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.”
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”
Source: Works
“I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.”
“I prefer working behind the camera.”
“I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.”
“I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.”
“I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.”
“I prefer writing about savvy characters, especially women, who think they have the world on a string.”
“I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.”
“I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.”
“I prefer writing originals.”
“I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.”
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”
“I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.”
“I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.”
Source: Wildest Dreams
“I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.”
“I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.”
“I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.”
“I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.”
Source: Merman: an autobiography
“I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.”
“I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.”
“I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.”
“I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.”
“I preferred sewing to bossing little children.”
“I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.”
Source: Mission to America
“I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.”
“I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.”
“I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep”
Source: Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.”
Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel
“I preferred to read about ancient times, distant lands. Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation. If I avoided all that on purpose I could believe I was in control.”
Source: Eileen
“I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.”
“I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.”
“I prepare for death by living.”
“I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.”