Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Samuel Richardson

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Roger Ebert

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Samuel Johnson

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Samuel Johnson

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Ronald Reagan

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Alan Alda

Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

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.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Samuel Alexander

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Homer

Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.