Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Ginn

When the Minutemen opened for Black Flag shows, people hated them. We had to develop a Minutemen audience from different people.

Gil Kane

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

Gil Kane

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Chuck Close

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Dennis Muren

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

Dennis Muren

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

Dennis Muren

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

Dennis Muren

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Dennis Muren

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

Dennis Muren

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.

Dennis Muren

I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

Dennis Muren

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

Dennis Muren

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

Dennis Muren

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

They are only after my money, they are nothing for me.

I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

Lee Krasner

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

Lee Krasner

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Lee Krasner

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

Lee Krasner

The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.

Lee Krasner

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.