Director Quotes

Good-looking people, they got no spine; their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.... The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Arthur: I think I'll take a bath.
Hobson: I'll alert the media.

Steve Gordon (director)

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

I am that twentieth-century failure, a happy undersexed celibate.

My best friend Linda is leaving her husband just because he is unfaithful to her. That is no reason to leave the person. I feel like after that, you should stay with them and make sure that the rest of their life is sheer hell.

The apparent simplicity of a model is due to a failure of imagination and limited data, unless the domain really is simple. If the world were really random, chemistry, cooking, and credit would not be possible, so our models cannot be figments of our imagination.

Peter Cheeseman

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

Melissa Gilbert

We're not gay!
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Am I not a man? And is not a man stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything, the full catastrophe.

Michael Cacoyannis

If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that everyone can be killed.

Francis Ford Coppola

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

Acting in Star Wars, I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

We haven't come close to figuring out how to use all these new-media opportunities, and most clients are very conflicted about what media they should use, why and how. They keep thinking there's some new silver bullet in the new-media world that will allow them to save money or find a new way to twist consumers' arms.

I make sure that they photograph everything they do. And they have to have a portfolio to graduate. You know, there's no formula for success out there, but what works is: learn how [to photograph], photograph everything you do and you put those photographs in front of people that can help hire you. That works.

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

Robert Rodriguez

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Never 'eld with mournin' meself. I always say, life's black enough as it is without dressin' in it, too.

Philip Dunne (writer)

"Republic" is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat. Same tightness a man gets when his baby makes his first step, or his boy first shaves, makes his first sound like a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. "Republic" is one of those words.

James Edward Grant

What we've got here is failure to communicate.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

America faces grave threats both here and abroad, and the FBI, in concert with its federal, state, and local partners continues to work steadfastly to prevent and hold accountable those responsible for these threats.

Christopher A. Wray

Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?

Frank Schaeffer

The intention of not only the screenwriter, but also the entire production staff, was to focus on how people would react if a creature such as Godzilla really did appear. What would the politicians do? How about the scientists? How would the military handle the situation? Given this, it was inevitable that the film would seem at least somewhat like a documentary.