Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Wilson

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

David Wain

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

David Duval

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

Breaux Greer

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

Alfred Molina

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

Robert Bridges

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where.

Michael Moore

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

Mason Cooley

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

Jason Reitman

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Robert Harris

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Tommy Lasorda

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Roland Barthes

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

Alan Rickman

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

Alan Moore

I love films that are made with almost no budget.

Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.

Alain Resnais

I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.

Alain Resnais

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Akira Kurosawa

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'd love to meet Julian [Assange], and time permitting, and his will permitting, I'm sure it will happen at some point. Even though he's been very critical of the film [The Fifth Estate], he's been very polite about me and my work, and I feel the same way about him.

Ludivine Sagnier

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.