Elephant Quotes

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.