A Quote by Mark Fisher

De Palma's great theme, obsessively reiterated, is betrayal.

Mark Fisher

Quote Topics

Betrayal Great Theme

Quote Author

Mark Fisher
British - Writer
July 11, 1968 - January 13, 2017

We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?

Jean Houston

It's my theme, my whole theme is, "Make America Great Again." It's a concept of greatness for this country.

Donald Trump

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

John Leguizamo

Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

Quentin Tarantino

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal??Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

Milan Kundera

One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but thats quite hard to say casually, at the beginning of a relationship. It’s not a word people use very often, which confuses me, because there are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, and then being on somebody else’s.

Jeanette Winterson

Noir' has been talked about a great deal in the discussion of 'The Black Dahlia,' but De Palma's palllete couldn't be less monochrome; it's the very definition of garish.

Mark Fisher

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

James C. Collins

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Wes Fesler

I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

Quentin Tarantino

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.