Ghosts Quotes

Last year I did something that I wasn`t comfortable with, and I`m really sorry I didn`t listen to my intuition. There was a scene in a movie that felt inappropriate for me, but I didn`t want to make waves... From now on, I`m going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say `no.` - Referring to a torture scene she filmed for Goya`s Ghosts, to Parade

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

I wouldn`t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

You can`t get a place more conflicted than Cambodia. You come up with ideas as you go. Film ideas come into your head. Sometimes you write them down. Sometimes they just pass you by. This one goes back to `93 when I went to Phnom Penh. It was an extended vacation and I knew very little of Cambodia. What I knew of it was The Killing Fields. What really opened my eyes and surprised me was how beautiful the country was. Phnom Penh was this partially destroyed city but a lot of it had been preserved. The royal palace is there and all the pagodas along the Mekong River. It was a real contrast from say, Bangkok. There was also this palpable sense of danger. There were a number of ex-pats I met too and these people were as interesting as the places. Guys that had opened bars and felt like they couldn`t go back. About a year later I read an article in the Tribune that Cambodia was being used as a fugitive haven. It sort of presented itself to me as an opportunity to do something really interesting. - On what inspired Dillon to base City of Ghosts in Cambodia.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That`s like fighting with ghosts.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera . . . It`s a frightening thing . . . Cameras make ghosts out of people.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

It was quite something. My wife saw it, too. At first I thought it was her with one of the kids until I reached over and I realised that she was still in bed with me - on seeing the ghosts of a woman and a child in his bedroom

Do you know how many times I get asked if I want to do Ghostbusters 3? Looking at my career so far, I mean if you just looked at my two films, I would make the most boring Ghostbusters movie. It would just be people talking about ghosts, there wouldn`t be any ghost-busting in it.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book, a beautiful woman - clicks, and part of that world takes on a special meaning. And you realize you have a story to tell.

It`s so hard to fight against ghosts, when they say there`s evidence and it`s not there.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

It`s not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can`t live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn`t describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead'”a dead parent, for example'”can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

If you don`t break your ropes while you`re alive do you think ghosts will do it after?

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.