Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christo

• Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
• The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
• The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
• The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
• The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.
• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
• The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
• The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
• The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
• The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
• The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
• The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
• The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
• The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
• The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
• The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
• The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
• The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
• The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
• The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
• The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
• The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
• The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.
• The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
• The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
• The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
• The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
• The work of art is a scream of freedom.
• There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
• There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
• There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
• There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
• There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.