Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josie Bissett

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Eugene Levy

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Ang Lee

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Ang Lee

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Amanda Seyfried

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

Sydney Pollack

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Sydney Pollack

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Susan Sontag

Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

Steve Finley

These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

A. R. Ammons

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.