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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Anil Kapoor

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Alla Nazimova

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

Alison Lohman

I like to take a character and develop it

Alison Elliott

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

Alison Pill

I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

Ann Brashares

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

Ann Brashares

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Ann Brashares

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.