Quotes by Directors - Page 5

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

Stephen King

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Orson Welles

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

Stephen King

The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Joss Whedon

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Stephen King

It was possible in this wonderful city for that nameless little boy -for any of its millions- to have a decent chance to scale the walls and achieve what they wished. Wealth, rank or an imposing name counted for nothing. The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Moss Hart

…Her desire was close to that of the person who drowns himself; he does not necessarily covet death so much as what comes after the drowning—something different from what he had before, at least a different world.

Yukio Mishima

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Rob Reiner

My childhood was a drag show!

Nuno Roque

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Herb Ritts

Death Laughs In The Faces Of Clocks

Dean Cavanagh

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

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Joss Whedon

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

Stephen King

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

Dean Cavanagh

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

Richard Curtis

Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and go to fucking church,' the cabbie said, and they both burst out laughing.

Stephen King

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

Stephen King

The enemy of humanism is not faith; the enemy of humanism is hate, is fear, is ignorance, is the darker part of man that is in every humanist, every person, in the world. That is the thing we have to fight. Faith is something we have to embrace. Faith in God is believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary.

Joss Whedon

Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years.

Stephen King

Strange how potent cheap music is.

Noël Coward

Today I write,riots with insite!Tomorrow I read,take the lead!Sometimes I sleep, health to keep!But for now I write,and got no gripe!

Leslie Austin

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Stephen King

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

Stewart Lee

What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Stephen King

Spencer Tracy, when asked for advice on acting, said, “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” James Cagney said, “Walk in, plant your feet, look the other fellow in the eye and…tell the truth.” With all due respect to both of these giant talents, I would have to say there’s something more. The true creation of a being, a character other than one’s self, for me is comparable to a mystical or spiritual experience. To stand in another person’s shoes. To see as he sees, to hear as he hears. To know what he knows, and to do all this with a sense of control, a mastering of the dramatic moment, there must be more than a “natural talent” at work.

Leonard Nimoy

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it.

Paul Auster

The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Ball

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Nuno Roque

Ultron: Stark asked for a savior, and settled for a slave.The Vision: I suppose we're both disappointments.Ultron: [laughs] I suppose we are.The Vision: Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. I think you missed that.Ultron: They're doomed!The Vision: Yes... but a thing isn't beautiful because it lasts. It is a privilege to be among them.Ultron: You're unbelievably naïve.The Vision: Well, I was born yesterday.

Joss Whedon

(...) if that's waht has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Stephen King

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Orson Welles

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Jodie Foster

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Marjane Satrapi

No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They’re the real ghosts.

Stephen King

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

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

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Rachel Ward

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

Ethan Hawke

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Bertolt Brecht

Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.

Stephen King

...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...

Stephen King

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

Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the local cobbler's six months ago, a keyring with no keys on it except for the doorkey, a baby sock that he did not remember putting in there, and the package of Blams he had gotten from the machine.

Stephen King

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.

Joss Whedon

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

Alex Garland

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

Stephen King

On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.

Adam Rapp

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

Stephen King

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

Nora Ephron

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Stephen King

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Stephen King

Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension. It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination. A passport to all what ifs.

Natasha Tsakos

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Dean Cavanagh

We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.

Francis Ford Coppola

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

Terry Johnson

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Stephen King

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