Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Soderbergh

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.

Steven Soderbergh

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

Steven Soderbergh

If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.

Steven Soderbergh

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

Steven Soderbergh

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Steven Soderbergh

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

Steven Soderbergh

If you’re sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you’ll just become paralysed.

Steven Spielberg

I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.

Steven Spielberg

It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

Steven Spielberg

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Steven Spielberg

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

Steven Spielberg

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Steven Spielberg

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Steven Spielberg

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

Steven Spielberg

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Steven Spielberg

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

Steven Spielberg

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

Richard Chamberlain

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

Regina Hall

I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

Reeve Carney

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

Regina King

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Reggie Jackson

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Reggie Watts

I just think that life is a constant experiment.

Reggie Watts

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

Reggie Watts

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

Reggie Watts

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

Regina Brett

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

Raymond Kelly

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

Raymond Berry

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

Ray William Johnson

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

Robert Bringhurst

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Robert Bringhurst

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.