Quotes by Directors - Page 10

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!
John Cameron Mitchell
Words have weight.
Stephen King
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?
Aaron Sorkin
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
Laurence Olivier
The future is just a memory that has yet to be born
Dean Cavanagh
I was tired of being me.
Rachel Ward
A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
Bruce Lee
Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!
Stephen King
The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.
Stephen King
Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on
Dean Cavanagh
AZRAEL:No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.
Kevin Smith
In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt her just as much as they hurt him and that except for the fact that she was older, there was no difference between them.
Paul Auster
I pictured love as a big hairy giant with a dead fish in his mouth. Grizzly bear claws and his heart half out of his chest cause it’s too big and the lungs have to fit. He never stops walking. Over mountains. Through the desert. On top of icy lakes. Past huge cities. And he hunts and kills for you and always comes back with plenty to eat.
Adam Rapp
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
Alan Rickman
Never give a good politician time to pray.
Stephen King
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
Stephen King
Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
James Clavell
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.
Nora Ephron
There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.
Moss Hart
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
Aaron Sorkin
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.
Stephen King
The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed
Stephen King
My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says "Don't worry Be Happy Feel Good." When you see that first thing and you reflect on it the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.
Larry Hagman
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
Stephen King
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody.
Harold Ramis
..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.
Jeff Anderson
Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you sorry you were ever born. And not to have been born is a curse. You are condemned to live outside time. And when you live outside time, there is no day and night. You don't get a chance to die.
Paul Auster
Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.
Richard Schiff
Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.
Stephen King
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
Stephen King
There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.
Natasha Tsakos
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
Marjane Satrapi
At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock.
Stephen King
Love means touching someone's soul may or may not be body
Utpal Dutta
Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.
Stephen King
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame very pretty often hot and fierce but still only light and flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
It's a hard life if you don't weaken.
Stephen King
Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.
William S. Hart
The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
Dean Cavanagh
I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Jeanne Moreau
Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks
Dean Cavanagh
Fools "Sell Out" Where Angels Fear to Tread
Dean Cavanagh
A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.
Stephen King
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
Hayao Miyazaki
Time and tide wait for no man.
Stephen King
And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.
Stephen King
remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.
Stephen King
Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!
Nora Ephron
I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before when I was down here, especially when I was walking this road by myself. It was a sense that reality is thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.
Stephen King
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
Stephen King
There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
Stephen King
Black as night and as beautiful as forever.
Stephen King
Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.
Stephen King
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
Stephen King
A kid of your age—any kid—could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?
Stephen King