Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Taymor

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

Morgan Spurlock

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

Victor Salva

I created a creature that I would find very unnerving, and I can't think of a more horrible way for anyone to go out than to be eaten.

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.

James Cameron

I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away.

Michael Ritchie

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

Ted Demme

I mean look, the thing about movie making and criticism and producing movies now, everyone compares everything to something else.

Sydney Pollack

I'm hands-on in areas where I can make a difference. There's no sense in me standing on set; the director doesn't need me there.

Jeff Hodson

I told them this is the worst part about the job. Cuts are tough, but nothing compares to the last game for the seniors and we have nine of them. It is really tough.

Andre Agassi

Pretty amazing. I don't know if I can put in context how this compares with some of my greatest experiences on the tennis court, but I know it's right up there, because this is what you work so hard for.

Elaine MacDonald

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

Andy Roddick

I don't think my serve compares to his serve, ... At least you can get a racket on mine.

Andre Agassi

I don't know if I can put in context with how this compares with some of my greatest moments on tennis courts, but it's right up there,

Bruce Forsyth

Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.

John Dulles

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

Ani Difranco

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?

Jess Walter

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Walter Lippmann

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Steve Vai

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Rose Tremain

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Yolanda Adams

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

W. Somerset Maugham

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Pig Miller

Just like Rockford, everyone else will step up. Just because Snap isn't there doesn't mean it's going to be easy.

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Elizabeth McGovern

Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

James Dempsey

What do you mean you are intercepting the wrong subject? How often does it occur? How long does it go on for?

Jason Statham

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

William Cowper

To dally much with subject mean and lowProves that the mind is weak, or makes it so.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

Warren Beatty

I'm not sure two movie stars can run - not even here.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

Garry Garner

We've been producing those since at least 1969.