Quotes by Filmmakers - Page 26

Because I want to be remembered.
Sherman Alexie
To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.
Raquel Cepeda
I don't believe in sin. My relationships that failed have failed because I somehow attract devout christians. I don't believe in virtue either. I think people just do shit and it's life.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Reality is infinitely complex, yet it is designed to experience in simplicity.
Guy Lozier
I think I was about to say that if I ever see Eliza again—and the fact that this is even a remote possibility is—I don’t know what it is, a goddamn miracle, maybe? After I kiss her and hold her and let her touch my chest, I’m going to hang her upside down and employ Chinese water torture until she promises never to be so stupid again.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.
Clint Van Winkle
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
Michael Crichton
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
Norman Mailer
Choice betrays character,” I said.“That’s not true.” Loring moved his finger along thesheet as if writing his name in cursive. “Eliza, you can’t judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.
Ryū Murakami
Gratitude, the ability to count your blessings, is the ultimate way to connect with the heart.
Baptist de Pape
As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.
Jared Brock
I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.
Susan Sontag
The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
Susanna Tamaro
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals.
Sherman Alexie
It's like I'm reading a book, andit's a book I deeply love, but I'mreading it slowly now so the wordsare really far apart and the spacesbetween the words are almostinfinite. I can still feel you andthe words of our story, but it's inthis endless space between thewords that I'm finding myself now.It’s a place that’s not of thephysical world - it's whereeverything else is that I didn'teven know existed. I love you somuch, but this is where I am now.This is who I am now.And I need you to let me go. Asmuch as I want to I can't live inyour book anymore.
Spike Jonze
Boredom turns a man to sex a woman to shopping and it drives newscasters berserk.
Bruce Herschensohn
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.
Miranda July
I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.
John Grooters
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets
Andy Warhol
We had, like I said before. . .we had to prevent life. We had to kill. It’s as simple as that.” —STEVE MASSOF
Ann McElhinney
Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone?
Ransom Riggs
It's HE-RO," the boy argued."No," the girl insisted,"it's HER-O.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.
Darnell Lamont Walker
We have enough proof that, at least my generation does, that patriarchy and matriarchy are gender-less roles.
Darnell Lamont Walker
It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.
Jared Brock
Music is nectar for the soul.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
My library is an archive of longings.
Susan Sontag
If you kill a black man, the world is silent. You can hear a garage door opening from twenty blocks away. You can pick up a pay phone and only hear the dial tone. Shooting stars sound exactly like the soft laughter of a little girl in Gasworks Park. If you kill a white man, the world erupts with noise: fireworks, sirens, a gavel pounding a desk, the slamming of doors.
Sherman Alexie
Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won't let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don't take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor.
Billy Marshall-Stoneking
Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
If you're calling for peace, I am not home.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Samir loves Joe’s face. He studies it every day in class: a face as old as his own but already, in eighteen years, the cli s and hills and odd proportions of its geography have been shaped by life’s weather. Samir likes to observe the ever-watchful green eyes, hidden in their shadowy alcoves over the at nose and cheekbones, and the heavy brow that scrunches up with Joe’s moods – all those sculptural planes could have been carved by Easter Islanders. en there’s the pout of his lips, the pucker of their concentration or the twist of their anger. But most of all, Samir examines the thoughts as they cross the wide-open landscape of the face. Tries hard to read their cloud shapes from the merest shadow.
Peter Bunzl
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.
Sherman Alexie
So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
Sherman Alexie
The map is more interesting than the territory.
Michel Houellebecq
But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory. You tough it out moment by moment, hour by hour, and after some weeks or months you begin to see signs of recovery. Slowly the wound heals into a scar.
Ryū Murakami
One must always be careful, for the art of shamanism is fueled by the power of the will, interacting with the power of the plants. And it seems all too easy for some shamans to warp that power to dark ends, to the 'shamachismo' that can drive them to serve selfish ego desires. Power corrupts, and the spirit world can corrupt absolutely if it's not approached from a perspective of openness and servitude.
Rak Razam
they'll reregulate within ten years. There'll be a string of crashes, and they'll do it. the free marketeers will scream, but the fact is, free markets don't provide safety. Only regulation does that. You want safe food, you better have inspectors. You want safe water, you better have an EPA. You want a safe stock market, you better have an SEC. And you want safe airlines, you better regulate them too. Believe me, they will.
Michael Crichton
When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.
Don Roff
Imagination means nothing without doing.
Charlie Chaplin
I wonder why people you have to meet have to be such liars. They lie as if their lives depended on it.
Ryū Murakami
Confronting a liar makes a better liar.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.
Miranda July
Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.
Iain Sinclair
Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.
Ransom Riggs
Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.
Michael Critchton
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Andy Warhol
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress.
Baptist de Pape
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
Man Ray
The laws of men are not infallible.
Wayne Gerard Trotman