Baltasar Kormakur quote: "I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff."

I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change...
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I trave...
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own countr...
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of ...
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people...
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We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'...
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made ...
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me ...
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want t...
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It...
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small ...
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a...
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'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventu...
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouti...
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to...
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos hel...
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When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a ...
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a...
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the c...
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material ...
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The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you...
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected t...
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who start...
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there f...
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In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more r...
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
BALTASAR GRACIáNN BALTASAR

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelt...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jacket...
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Know or listen to those who know.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
BALTASAR GARZON

All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried a...
BALTASAR GARZON

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - Th...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - T...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Yes and No are soon said, but give much to think over
BALTASAR GRACIAN

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the g...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate...
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When desire dies, fear is born.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Good things, when short, are twice as good.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Time and I against any two.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case th...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly covete...
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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life ...
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn'...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog...
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
GRACIAN BALTASAR

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She s...
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The more merit, the less affection
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No...
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.
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Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made ...
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

I think we all have to be satisfied that the law is being applied with impartiality.
BALTASAR GARZON

that could have been preliminary information for attacks on the World Trade Center towers.
BALTASAR GARZON

He has taken the news with moderate optimism,
BALTASAR GARZON

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The things we remember best are those better forgotten
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease s...
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Beauty and folly are generally companions.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend
BALTASAR GRACIAN

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Time and I against any two
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Work is the price which is paid for reputation
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is a great art to know how to sell wind
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left o...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Evil report carries further than any applause
BALTASAR GRACIAN

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Audacious persons hope to make themselves eternally famous by setting fire to one of the wonders of ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not o...
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41 Never exaggerate. It isn’t wise to use superlatives. They offend the truth and cast doubt on yo...
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The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that doe...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of h...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important a...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they ca...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offend...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Be first the master of yourself
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For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to...
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The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
BALTASAR GRACIAN

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No,...
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Evil report carries further than any applause.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN

Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
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The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
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Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

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