Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beck

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Barry Lopez

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Alger Hiss

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

Agatha Christie

There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Don DeLillo

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

Andy Rooney

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Allen Ginsberg

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

Marco Mueller

It is a question of money, and we should not be ashamed. Cinema is, after all, an industry.

Charlotte Rampling

I am fascinated by the variety of social content and political content in the films we will be judging. This is the kind of cinema I like a lot and the kind I think is very important.

Joe Wright

I found cinematic equivalents to Austen's prose, ... Her observations of human emotion suggest to me close-ups, not sweeping panoramas. She writes details about the mechanics of social interaction, so that's why there are so many close-ups.

David Brown

I was interested in the subject largely because it is a great saga with a great cast, many cinematic elements and a strong sense of urgency for public safety. It involves elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, with many wild twists and turns.

Michael O'Brien

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.

Richard Moe

Hundreds of these irreplaceable cinemas have been demolished, and more close every year.

Carey Mulligan

I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"

Erich Korngold

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

John Cassavetes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Dan Gilroy

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cary Fukunaga

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Rod Marinelli

That was a full day for an hour of watching a man work, where I could have watched numerous films that day on other players -- and we're going to get film of that workout anyway.

Francis Coppola

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

Tom O'Neil

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

Mia Kirshner

I think we all have scenes where we watched and go, Oh my God. How could I do this? But you can't do that when you're filming it.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.