Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Night Shyamalan

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Andy Wachowski

We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from.

Andy Wachowski

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

Andy Wachowski

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

Joel Coen

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

Penelope Spheeris

When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them.

Walter Hill

What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought of as a B movie many years ago.

Joel Coen

Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say.

Richard Donner

Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

Matthew Buckland

We're looking at a somewhat flat start to the week. Oil prices look set to play a key role in directing equities.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

Kim Fields

Directing at seven-and-a-half months pregnant was lots of fun.

Gavid Hood

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Gary Sinise

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

Alex Graves

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

Kevin Henkes

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Sally Lawson

We really followed our noses. No one was examining this problem of spontaneous pain.

Russ Marlan

What we're examining in this investigation is if there were alternatives to automatically releasing him.

Sam Curry

We have a scorecard, and there are 22 points that we go through examining how the software behaves. In this case, XCP is falling down.

Frank Black

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

Jonathan Littman

This show is not about the process of prosecuting somebody. It's about going into this world and examining why people do what they do..

Gary Karr

We are examining our systems to make sure there is not some hole where people are not getting picked up.

Mark Kelly

We've increased patrols ... on that side of campus, and we're examining other things over there as well, from lighting to security fences.

Brian Billick

Kyle's, for instance, would've happened in a swimming pool. The way that thing got pinned and turned had nothing to do with the turf whatsoever, ... What we're examining very closely, quite frankly, are the shoes. The players all want, just like the padding, as little a shoe, as light a shoe, as fast a shoe as they can get. But the shoe also is a very strong support mechanism for the foot.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Lee H. Hamilton

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Charles Beichman

We don't know anything about planets around very young stars because the radial velocity method doesn't work with them,

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Geoffrey Nice

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

Diana Wynne Jones

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

Amy Winehouse

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Steven Gerrard

This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Adam Baldwin

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

David Bailey

I love learning new techniques.

Ansel Adams

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Donald Rumsfeld

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

Anurag Kashyap

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

Robin Wright

I'm ready to do a Woody Allen comedy.

Julie Delpy

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Dave Chappelle

I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.