Quotes by Filmmakers - Page 40

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
Jim Henson
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Don Roff
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Andy Warhol
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
John Waters
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Charlie Chaplin
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
Charlie Chaplin
Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.
Xiaolu Guo
I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.
Miranda July
If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.
Ransom Riggs
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
Michel Houellebecq
No one escapes from life alive.
Michael Crichton
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
Quentin Tarantino
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...
Michel Houellebecq
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol
Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.
T.D. Jakes
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.
Angelina Jolie
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
Sherman Alexie
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
Ransom Riggs
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
Michel Houellebecq
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Michel Houellebecq
Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.
Dany Laferrière
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
Frank Zappa
It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.
Etgar Keret
Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians…it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love…a man, a woman, what have you…it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
Al Pacino
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality
Susan Polis Schutz
Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when they are sad, Being together in good times, And being together in bad times.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH.Love is . . . Being honest with yourself at all times, Being honest with the other person at all times, Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY.Love is . . . An understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, Accepting the other person just the way they are, And not trying to change them to be something else.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY.Love is . . . The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual. LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS.Love is . . . The excitement of planning things together, The excitement of doing things together.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE.Love is . . . The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION.Love is . . . Giving and taking in a daily situation, Being patient with each other's needs and desires.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SHARING.Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times.LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SECURITY.LOVE IS . . . THE SOURCE OF LIFE!
Susan Polis Schutz
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
Charlie Chaplin
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
Sherman Alexie
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson
That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.
Adriana Trigiani
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Charlie Chaplin
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Andy Warhol
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne