Dire Quotations | Page 3

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

The potential of stem cells has been widely known for many years, but it is only recently we have started to make progress towards the ultimate goal of using them in patients. These results show it may be as little as five years before this advance can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries.

We're in so dire need for baby clothes. Everything she can give to us we can use. I even keep them in my car because I sometimes do home visits. It's nice to give a little gift to the mom for the baby.

We're in real dire straits in the marketplace right now.

We're in a very deep hole on job market, ... We've had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.

We're in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from.