Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Colleen McCullough

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Corita Kent

Consider everything an experiment.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Ambrose Bierce

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.

Alfred Korzybski

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Alexander Pope

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

E. Stanley Jones

The universe does not make sense without God.

Doug Liman

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

Donald Byrd

I don't follow what everybody else does.

Dylan Moran

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Douglas Wilson

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Sam Ewing

There's no thief like a bad movie.

Martin Scorsese

Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.

Ben Mendelsohn

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.

Gabriel Byrne

The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

Yann Martel

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Louis Tomlinson

I just like really simple things. If I had been on tour for a while and I got to come back and take my girlfriend Eleanor on a date, we would go to the cinema and then out for dinner.

Pedro Almodovar

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Baz Luhrmann

Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.