Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Bibler

I've wanted to do a series on great directors, and I think the idea was, in part, to show films that have this status of great craftsmanship.

Brian K. Vaughan

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Park Chan-wook

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

Amber Heard

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

Andre Bazin

All films are born free and equal.

Christopher Nolan

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Curtis Hanson

I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.

Andrea Arnold

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Alicia Vikander

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Nadine Gordimer

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Margaret Atwood

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Mother Teresa

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Tony Romo

Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

Franz Kafka

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

Greta Gerwig

I don't do well when I don't work.

George Herbert

Things well fitted abide.

Joe Buck

You have to do well on third downs.