Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walton

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Benedict Cumberbatch

What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

Louis C. K.

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Brandon Sanderson

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Arthur Miller

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

C. S. Lewis

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Buster Keaton

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Dean Koontz

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Brit Marling

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Bertrand Russell

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Billy West

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Dick Cavett

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Edwin Land

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Derek Jarman

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

Agnes Varda

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

David Gale

We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself for us. It felt very cinematic, more cinematic than most videogames and with a real sense of style, with very strong characters.

Charlie Hunnam

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

James Cameron

We're so scared of piracy right now that we're ready to pimp out our mothers. This whole day-and-date DVD release nonsense? Here's an answer: (Digital cinema is) one of the strongest reasons I've been pushing 3-D for the past few years because it offers a powerful experience which you can only have in the movie theater.

Kaya Scodelario

I would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It's such a personal thing, so I'd want to do my family proud. I'd want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I'm just waiting for the right thing.

Steve Erickson

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

Martin Sheen

All of his movies had a profound effect on my life, in my work and all of my generation, ... He transcended cinema acting. It was no longer acting, it was human behavior.

Jeff Lemire

A lot of cinematic influences on 'Descender' - Kubrick for sure. '2001: A Space Odyssey' is my favorite movie. It has been since I was 12. I just love that film.