Quotes by Filmmakers - Page 2

Humour is just another defence against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
Mel Brooks
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope and we can work.
Jacques Cousteau
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Michael Curtiz
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.
Jacques Cousteau
If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.
Sylvester Stallone
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
Jacques Cousteau
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Leap and the net will appear.
Julie Cameron
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer
Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.
Bruce Herschensohn
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag
Each of us is an artist capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
Dorothy Fadiman
By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
Peter Ustinov
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
It’s not our place to judge the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, Nurse Webster. The sooner you learn that the better. Any other approach just leads to conflicts of duty and undermines the smooth running of the institution. We are here to ensure that the prisoners are dealt with firmly and professionally. It’s up to their lawyers to handle matters pertaining to their sentences.
Rachel Dax
I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
David Byrne
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
David Byrne
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
Guy Browning
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
Barbra Streisand
Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
Ransom Riggs
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
James Franco
Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.
Soman Chainani
What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?'The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.
Michel Houellebecq
I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview]
James Cameron
Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
Ruth Ozeki
Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo
Kathryn Lasky
The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf. After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power (the people).
James Morcan
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician
Charlie Chaplin
sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
Al Pacino
I can't remember how to cry.
Sherman Alexie
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
Nikolas Schreck
Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.
Nikolas Schreck
Autumn. The grace in letting dead things fall.
Darnell Lamont Walker
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like.
Frank Zappa
I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.
Dito Montiel
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Michael Crichton
Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.
Michael Crichton
son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.
Sherman Alexie
Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.
Don Roff
That's my little piece of heaven. Go ahead."Ciro followed Remo through the open door to a small enclosed garden. Terra-cotta pots positioned along the top of the stone wall spilled over with red geraniums and orange impatiens. An elm tree with a wide trunk and deep roots filled the center of the garden. Its green leaves and thick branches reached past the roof of Remo's building, creating a canopy over the garden. There was a small white marble birdbath, gray with soot, flanked by two deep wicker armchairs. Remo fished a cigarette out of his pocket, offering another to Ciro as both men took a seat. "This is where I come to think.""Va bene," Ciro said as he looked up into the tree. He remembered the thousands of trees that blanketed the Alps; here on Mulberry Street, one tree with peeling gray bark and holes in its leaves was cause for celebration.
Adriana Trigiani
the black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated.
Darnell Lamont Walker
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
John Waters
Why did you become a journalist?”“Better than working for a living.
Leslie Cockburn
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
Susan Sontag
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask
James Cameron
Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.
James Morcan
If you end up with the story you started with, you weren't listening along the way.
Matt Heineman
The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Everyone called it the "Flint Urinal." Editorially, the paper had historically been on the wrong side of every major social and political issue of the twentieth century -- "the wrong side" meaning: whatever side the union workers were on, the Urinal took the opposite position.
Michael Moore