Filmmaker Quotes - Page 8

• Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

  Richard Linklater

  Film, Paint, Painter

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

  Paul Strand

  Life, Photography, Records

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• Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

  William Klein

  Inspirational, Photography, Being Yourself

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• America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  White, America, Black

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• Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Texas, Order, Understanding

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• Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

  Ritwik Ghatak

  Beautiful, Art, Truth

  "Cinema and I" by Ritwik Ghatak, (pp. 75), 1987.

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• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

  Mel Gibson

  Love, Funny, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

  Peter Joseph

  Our World, Government, Suits

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

  Satyajit Ray

  Communication, Mind, Cinema

  Satyajit Ray (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”

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• You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Sarcastic, Education, Religious

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• If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Dirty, Book

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Religious, Redneck, Reality

  "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.

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• Bisexuality doubles your chances of a date on a Saturday night.
  I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
  If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.
  I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
  My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
  Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Beautiful

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• The best director is the one you don't see.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Directors

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

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Life, Want, Famous Women

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• I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

  Theodore Bikel

  Fear, Giving, Wonder

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• I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

  Spike Lee

  New York, Cities, Stories

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

  Mike Figgis

  Moving, Loss, Lost Friendship

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

  John McTiernan

  Fun, Thrillers, Enormous

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• The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

  Stanley Tucci

  Individualism, Practicals

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