Corresponding Quotes

One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the story is told: the fact that one is rarely permitted to see the person who interviews all the characters, the fact that chronology is not respected, things like that. As a director I cared more about technique: all the scenes are shot in a single take and do not use reverse cutting; in most scenes you hear the soundtrack before you see the corresponding images - that reflects Orson Welles` radio training, etc. Behaving like the ordinary spectator, one uses a film as if it were a drug; he is dazed by the motion and doesn`t try to analyze. A critic, on the other hand, is forced to write summaries of films in 15 lines. That forces one to apprehend the structure of a film and to rationalize his liking for it.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

We forecast an increase of approximately 15 per cent in operating profit after tax for the half year ending 31 December 2005, over the amount reported for the prior corresponding period,

When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Success can be harder to take than failure in a lot of ways. It brings with it a responsibility. You have to learn that all the highs don`t last forever. For every high, there`s a corresponding low. It`s why young kids often go to pieces. When they get so popular they can`t go out of their hotel rooms, that`s when they turn to drugs. Success can be very dangerous, very heady.