20th-century Film Producer Quotes

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

Oh God — I look back now, and it seems so gross. At just 14 years old, I had to wear a thong bikini. And then they used that scene in the trailer, so my entire school saw it! There are still men who come up to me today and say, "You were really hot in that film!" I was 14, for God's sake!

Katherine Heigl

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, and they never will because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See —
One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit.
From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing
Depending Upon Where You Sit.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

"I wonder how we can account for such parallelism in door design," Ted said. "The likelihood of its occurring by chance is astronomically small. Why, this door is the perfect size and shape for human beings!"

Michael Crichton

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad.

An actor is a kind of a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows.

You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind-trick.

Lawrence Kasdan

You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.

Stirling Silliphant

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

David O. Selznick

Oh, Jerry, don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.