Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Spurlock

I think, after about a week in, I started to get really down. I would feel better when I would eat.

Godfrey Reggio

Remember that the film is about the digital domain. From the point of view of the scenario, images are evil demons, if I can be so bold.

Douglas Trumbull

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

John Frankenheimer

The first assistant director runs the set. The whole mood of the movie, the whole tenor of the set comes off that person, and it's just a critical choice.

John Huston

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

Mark Rydell

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.

Penelope Spheeris

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen.

Charles Guggenheim

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Jay Roach

The minute somebody starts trying to market that stuff, I think it would actually really be a harmful thing for the process of film making.

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

James Mullen

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

Willie Mullins

I never thought I'd say this but you could argue that he's a bit of a handicap snip now!

Bruce Anderson

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

Mireille Enos

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Gus Van Sant

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

Steve Utkus

You could argue that lifecycle funds are the ideal investment for 401(k) investors throughout your lifecycle, given their broad diversification.

Matthew Maguire

There is no way you can argue anything New York has done at any level has held property taxes down.

Todd McFarlane

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Norman Lear

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Orson Welles

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Oliver Stone

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.

Mike Figgis

I had no plans to be a director.

Scarlett Johansson

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

Shirley Booth

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Asif Kapadia

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Chris Robinson

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.

Cole Mueller

Everyone knows USC films help launch actors' careers. USC film students know what they're doing.

Alicia Keys

Everyone on the set had been working on films for 20-plus years. I was enraptured.

David Smith

The biped robots that have been proclaimed for the past 50 years in sci-fi films are now on their way.

Sung Kang

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

Ruby Rose

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

Trey Parker

It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.

Susan Murray

kind of hard to get to your car.

Laura Lange

I wouldn't say I've progressed since last year. I don't think I'm going to play in college, so this is my last year playing and I'm going to play as hard as I can.

Mark Mulder

Izzy told me the first time you're traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it's no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn't hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

Ron Polk

He used to be a power pitcher, but after shoulder surgery he's had some hard luck.

Joey Cora

He didn't pitch that bad. He threw strikes, and that's the key for him. He didn't get hit hard at all. He just wasn't lucky.

Ben Braun

He can take a lot of pride knowing he is playing for a championship now as he leaves Cal. He has worked so hard over the years.

George Herman

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

Danny Shafer

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

Chuck Anderson

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.

Richard Eastman

It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Rob Babcock

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

Haley Barbour

Those are the kinds of things that will be discussed,

Pat Thomas

Those are the kinds of things people would have never thought would happen.

Julia Sweeney

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Roland Barthes

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Veronica Roth

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.