The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don’t give the students an idea of what’s happening.
BRIAN DE PALMAThe hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.
BEN VEREEN -
Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that’s fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE -
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
EPICTETUS -
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSON -
Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
ALAN LIGHTMAN -
Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
I think, just as footballers play better at home, maybe film-makers, too, create better at home, even though the rules of football are the same wherever you go.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI -
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
SAMUEL SMILES -
The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally.
ADDISON WIGGIN -
That’s why we have journalists, for stats.
MARIA SHARAPOVA -
Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
BLYTHE DANNER -
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
CHARLES BABBAGE -
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
I get to sing a great song called “Proud of your boy” which was by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and they were so hurt when it had to be cut from the film [Aladdin].
ADAM JACOBS