More - Philip Pullman Quotes

The experience of being in the audience when a play or an opera is being performed is not simply passive. Children need to go to the theatre as much as they need to run about in the fresh air.

Philip Pullman

 Experience

It's not like watching TV; it's not even like watching a film in a cinema. Everyone in that big space is alive and everyone is focussed on one central activity.

Philip Pullman

 Cinema

Walk Into the Sky.

Philip Pullman

 

Adam and Eve are like imaginary number, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

Philip Pullman

 God

If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it.

Philip Pullman

 

If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it,

Philip Pullman

 

I warmly welcome Anand Tucker as director of the first His Dark Materials film, ... He respects the integrity of the narrative and will maintain that integrity in the film-making process. His ideas are exciting and well thought out, and I greatly look forward to seeing the project go forward in his hands.

Philip Pullman

 

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Philip Pullman

 British Writer

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

Philip Pullman

 British Writer

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

 British Writer