Choose Me – Quotes

So many stories, and

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano

Even if I wanted

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn’t expect the government or federation to choose me to do that. Feyisa Lilesa

If it was a

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it. Diana Gabaldon

My father, never chooses me for anything. If you needed a kidney and I offered him mine, well, pfft. Well, he’d take it ‘cos he was dying. It’s not that he doesn’t love me, ‘cos he does. It’s just that special kind of love that feels like neglect. Christopher Titus

My father, never chooses

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who’s the best man now? Christopher Titus

I’m happy to have

I’m happy to have a physical part in ‘High Tension,’ in ‘Hereafter,’ and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It’s important, because you can tell a … Read more

One opinion I share

One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn’t add up to membership in a private club. … Read more

Do you think that

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men. Brigham Young

This film [ Blue

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave him a bunch of ideas and then Vincent helped guide me and develop this particular film. I enjoy that rapport to have somebody else help guide me in my choices for the next film. The poetic way of looking at it is which project is going to choose me as a director.
Abdellatif Kechiche