Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hedda Hopper

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

Louise Brooks

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

Orson Welles

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Oliver Stone

Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

Oliver Stone

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Oliver Stone

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Oliver Stone

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

R. Lee Ermey

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

Master Kwon

The key to a good life is simplicity,yet creating simplicity is so complex.

Laura Benanti

I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

Karen Gillan

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

Justin Cronin

I like creating villains.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

Jonah Peretti

The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

Jon Stewart

Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.

Lynn Abbey

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

Joe Vitale

If you don't care about the people around you or treat them as if they don't matter, you'll stop the flow of possibilities. This includes your financial prosperity. Creating a vehicle for good that you feel passionate about is the final step toward true prosperity.

Marion Cotillard

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

Bruce Springsteen

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.

Leonard Maltin

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

Neil LaBute

Everyone has a story.

Shekhar Kapur

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

Taylor Swift

'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Kate Seredy

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Linda Ronstadt

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.