Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoda

Luke: What's in there? Yoda: Only what you take with you.

Robin Wright

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Dennis Quaid

Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

Simon Power

Movies rated 'R' are supposed to be banned, yet there are hundreds of them on the list.

Bob Greenly

Movies have always been sold in a subscription environment, starting all the way back with premium television. Music tends to be in the background, where movies are different: You stop and watch them.

Allison Anders

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

Gia Coppola

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Frank Spotnitz

Movies and television shows are two completely different species,

Dan Jones

Movies and kids, they are just part of your life. I don't even want to say it's hard, because it really isn't.

Alexandra Fuller

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points.

Charles Spurgeon

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Dick Van Dyke

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Diane Kruger

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Dennis Potter

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Dennis Potter

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Charles Spurgeon

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

Eleanor Porter

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charles M. Schulz

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

Charles Lyell

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna.

Betty White

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.