Ark Quotes

Die Hard, Indiana Jones, and Lethal Weapon were the movies that really kicked it off for me in high school. I saw a making-of Raiders of the Lost Ark documentary and thought, `Man, that`s the job I want to do.`

What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival. - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah`s Ark.

Steven was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark. That`s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you`re working on as much as I love the Indiana Jones films. And then you have George Lucas read it and say, `Yeah, I don`t think so, I don`t like it.` And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, (which) is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only get so emotionally invested and have the rug pulled out from under you before you say enough of that. (on his rejected script for Indiana Jones 4)

I saw the Ark as an educational tool to take the message of alcohol and drug awareness into (catering) colleges, ... Our motto is `In service of others`. It was not about egos, not about people using the Ark to promote themselves.

Wal-Mart is coming to Jefferson, ... Don`t let anybody kid you. I am guessing right now that if the (Wal-Mart) people in Bentonville (Ark.) don`t already know the election results, they will know first thing in the morning and they will trot out the old annexation paperwork faster than Brian Calhoun can get a first down.

The biblical account of Noah`s Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah`s ark.

It wasn`t raining when Noah built the ark