Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Alfred Hitchcock

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Billy Crystal

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Jean Renoir

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Stephen Frears

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Doug Kosarek

It is an integral part of what we do. Travelers use it as well as guests at our other hotels.

Bill Warren

I don't have permission from the guests to release any information.

Robert Phillips

Guests want a hassle-free ownership of a second home.

Anton LaVey

If a guest in your lair annoys you, treat him cruelly and without mercy.

Martha Stewart

(She) also (said) that she wanted me to be one of the first guests on her show.

Peter Dunn

We have a number of guests who want to come here more often but hesitate because they are appropriately sensitive to managing their calorie intake,

Smith Thammasaroj

Several hotel guests have complained to me that they have seen no map, no signs, not even a brochure on what to do if a tsunami occurs. People who sleep in the rooms will not hear the warning from sirens if the hotel has not installed a warning system in their rooms.

Jim Williams

So far, the response from guests about this technology has been very positive.

Elbert Hubbard

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.