Directors Quotes - Page 12

• There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

  Martin Scorsese

  Simple, Cinema, Filmmaker

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• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  Kevin Spacey

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

  Denzel Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe In Yourself

  "Shaq asked Denzel Washington to say lines from 'Training Day' speech" by Alysha Tsuji, www.usatoday.com. April 17, 2018.

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

  Christopher Reeve

  Love, Life, Laughter

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• Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Books And Movies

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• I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Believe, Common, Chaos

  "Grizzly Man", 2006.

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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• What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

  Gene Wilder

  Daughter, Home, Simple

  "Fictional character: Jim". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

  Sam Shepard

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Remembering Sam Shepard: The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Author's 10 Best Quotes on Writing, Love and Life" by Olivia Ladd, parade.com. July 31, 2017.

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• I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dance every performance as if it were your last.

  Erik Bruhn

  Dance, Dancing, Lasts

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• Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

  Lee Strasberg

  Lying, Reality, Expression

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• Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

  Louis Mann

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

  Daniel Franzese

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

  John Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

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• God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Beauty, God, Redemption

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• Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

  David Zippel

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Winning

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

  Don Johnson

  Thinking, Too Much, Cool Funny

  "Rascal". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2014.

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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