hpn4dbst’s most recent Quotables

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.

I like to hear a person say, "It needed to be done." As opposed to a person saying, "It ain't my job."

Mayor: Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side last year, that's my policy.
Frank: Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's *my* policy!
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of 'Julius Caesar,' you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!

Rumack: You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
Elaine Dickinson: A hospital? What is it?
Rumack: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land? 
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor. 
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure. 
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess? 
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours. 
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

I worked with Freud in Vienna. We broke over the concept of penis envy. He thought it should be limited to women.

I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.

No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.

Here at Globo Gym we understand that ugliness and fatness are genetic disorders, like baldness or necrophilia, and it's your fault if you don't hate yourself enough to do something about it.

Your Gym is a skid-mark on the underpants of society.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

At the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we teach you that there's more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking.

Don't mess with the volcano, my man, 'cause I will go Pompeii on your... butt.

I must have ripped the Q section out of my dictionary, 'cause I don't know the meaning of the word 'quit'!

Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.

Mickey: ...ya know, don't you wanna be part of the experience? You know, what the hell it's not all a drag... jeez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. And after who knows, I mean maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.