Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Stone

I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Winston Graham

I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Olivia De Havilland

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

Paul Auster

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Martin Amis

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

Shelby Foote

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Neil Simon

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

Michael O'Brien

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Richard Moe

Hundreds of these irreplaceable cinemas have been demolished, and more close every year.

Charlotte Rampling

I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.

Roger Ebert

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

Wim Wenders

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

David Hancock

In the face of sustained and growing competition, cinema has ceded its predominant revenue position to other media,

Stanley Tucci

I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way.

David Goyer

I had to immediately start preproduction on that, so I had to find a replacement really fast. And one of the things that we liked was that people had seen the first hour and thought it had more of a cinematic quality, so we thought we have to find a feature director to do the second hour. Who's available?

Mikel Olaciregui

The festival is going to have its own doses of glamour. European cinema is starting to get glamour.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Dawn Hudson

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

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.