Quotes by Filmmakers

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.
Charlie Chaplin
Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."Sophie: "But then I can't talk!
Soman Chainani
i’m super, it’s like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here.
David Louden
You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognize
Marguerite Duras
The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting...I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in other writings. I remembered, for example, that for quite some time I tracked down the subject of kissing. I read and read and felt dizzy with the subject, as if I had eaten a psychotropic fruit.
Hassan Blasim
No genuine change in society ever occurs without the mass public getting behind a cause. The good guys in government are counting on enough of us common people waking up and demanding more rights and greater freedoms.
James Morcan
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.
Miranda July
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Guillermo del Toro
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
Charlie Chaplin
The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Jean Cocteau
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names identities personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.
Melvin Peebles
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.
Norman Mailer
One sits down first one thinks afterwards.
Jean Cocteau
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.
Susan Sontag
People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?
Robert M. Young
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand
Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?
Jean Cocteau
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov
I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
A woman that's too soft and sweet is like tapioca pudding-fine for them as likes it.
Osa Johnson
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Susan Sontag
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
Marcel Pagnol
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
Her face was her chaperone.
Rupert Hughes
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
Sylvester Stallone
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
Her face was her chaperone.
Rupert Hughes
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Peter Ustinov
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.
Sylvester Stallone
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world but I succeeded because I keep going and going and going.
Sylvester Stallone
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov