American Film Producer Quotes

Cornered
by identities I never wanted to claim,
I ran.
Fast.
Hard
Deep
Inside myself.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

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

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.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The dream — you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Barbra Streisand

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

How come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall?

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.

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 like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. The guy I love right now is Guillermo del Toro. I'd love to make a film like Pan's Labyrinth.

George A. Romero

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is unnecessary. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Anything but Beethoven. Nobody wants to see a movie about a blind composer.

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

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

Richard Rowland

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

Jon Landau (film producer)

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

G. Edward Griffin

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

As soon as you feel comfortable, that's when it's time to start over.

Jerry Weintraub