Quotes by Directors - Page 4

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

Stephen King

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what's going on. But on the other hand, the body doesn't lie, as we now know. Nono, it'll be great, because all of those ph.Ds are in there, like, discussing modes of alienation, and we'll be in here quietly humping.

Woody Allen

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

Henning Mankell

Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake.

Stephen King

We're not copying life, we're making a comment on it.

Richard Williams

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

Stephen King

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

Ewan McGregor

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Ewan McGregor

If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

Dustin Lance Black

You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks

Natasha Tsakos

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

David Mamet

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

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

Joss Whedon

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

Paul Auster

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

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.

Phillip Mann

Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

Woody Allen

What would you rather have, peace or freedom?

Eric Kripke

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

Marjane Satrapi

...we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions on front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night...and what your dreams are like.

Stephen King

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Ben Elton

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

Stephen King

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.

Woody Allen

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Joss Whedon

I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. Because that's my job, right? Taking care of my pain in the ass little brother.

Eric Kripke

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

Stephen King

What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

Stephen King

You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.

Stephen King

In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don’t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.

Goo Hye Sun

Respect your body, and look forward to feeling healthy and clean. Your body deserves better than laboratory-made sweetness.

Damon Gameau

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Stephen King

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Stephen King

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

Yukio Mishima

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Peter Hedges

Several times we had been very close to "it," but "it" just never quite happened. She always drew back, and I never pressed her. God help me, I was being gallant. I have wondered often since what would have changed (for good or for ill) had I not been. What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

Stephen King

I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch.

Rachel Ward

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Robert Redford

Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s not really true. There’s really only death, you know. Death is the biggie. Two hundred years from now, none of us are going to be here. We’re all going to be someplace else. Maybe a better place, maybe a worse place; it may be sort of like New Jersey, but someplace else. The same thing can be said of rabbits and mice and dogs, but we’re in a very uncomfortable position: we’re the only creatures—at least as far as we know, though it may be true of dolphins and whales and a few other mammals that have very big brains—who are able to contemplate our own end. We know it’s going to happen. The electric train goes around and around and it goes under and around the tunnels and over the scenic mountains, but in the end it always goes off the end of the table. Crash.

Stephen King

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

Tonya Hurley

Work is more fun than fun.

Noël Coward

Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are all flying out again.

Stephen King

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a baby.` `What?` As if it`s the end of the world. Of course, it`s the start of a brilliant world.

Ewan McGregor

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Jane Wagner

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Stephen King

Time and tide wait for no man.

Stephen King

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this

David Mamet

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

Dean Cavanagh

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

Paul Auster

Don't Stop Searching Until You Find Creative & Gainful Unemployment

Dean Cavanagh

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Stephen King

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Stephen King

I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: "If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.

Stephen King

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

Peter Hedges

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Orson Welles

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

John Logan

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Ossie Davis

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Stephen King

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