Schindler Quotes

• They say in that book (Keneally's Schindler's List) that I gave the Jews the food in their mouths. I never had time to find out who was sick and who had to be fed (by hand). I am no good as a nurse, I tell you frankly. I have no talent for nursing . . . I bought the food for everyone.

  Emilie Schindler

  Book, Nursing, Hands

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• Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Opposites, Dna, Expectations

  Source: inters.org

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• I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other films, Munich would be the one that's really, really amazing storytelling.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Mean, Saving Private Ryan, Would Be

  Source: screenrant.com

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• If you take away 'Schindler's List' and 'Saving Private Ryan', I like 'Minority Report' a lot.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Saving Private Ryan, Lists, Minorities

  Source: screenrant.com

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• [Martin] Scorsese probably could have directed Schindler's List and [Steven] Spielberg probably could have directed Goodfellas. But it's as much to do with the difference in culture as it is with race.

  Denzel Washington

  Race, Differences, Culture

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I've been nominated four times, never won. And the whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's why I'm doing it. "Schindler's Bloody List," "The Pianist," Oscars coming out of their ass.

  Ricky Gervais

  World, Four, Oscars

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

  Maggie Grace

  Males, Actors, Lists

  "EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Grace Dishes on Being Taken". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. May 08, 2009.

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• My mom, for most of her life, was a Holocaust denier. And it was terrible for the entire family to have to deal with until, finally, a couple years ago, we had an intervention. And we had a rabbi come into the home, had him walk her through the history of the Jewish people, and then he made her watch "Schindler's List." And after that, my mom did a complete 180. Now she can't believe it only happened once.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Couple

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• I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Careers, People

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film

  Embeth Davidtz

  Believe, Mean, July

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• I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Heroism, Able

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• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Saving Private Ryan, Three, Proud

  "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1999.

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• THERE WAS NEVER A SCHINDLER'S LIST. It was drawn up by a man called Goldman. This man took money to put a name on that list - no money, no place on the list. I was told this by a Dr Schwartz, in Vienna; he had paid in diamonds to save his wife

  Emilie Schindler

  Men, Names, Wife

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

  Parker Stevenson

  Jewels, House, Architect

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• The truth is I'm a dork. I collected comics. I still love cartoons. I'd rather be at home on a Friday night than out at some club… My sense of humor is that of a geek. My likes and dislikes are that of a geek. I've memorized every crappy sci-fi movie there is, but still haven't seen Schindler's List.

  Nathan Fillion

  Friday, Home, Night

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• The List is Life.

  Thomas Keneally

  Lists, Schindler's List

  Schindler's List, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

  Steven Spielberg

  Self, Lists, Motivated

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• Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

  Steven Spielberg

  Poetic License, Historical, Lists

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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