Film Producer Quotes

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Mulder: Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted.

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.

Peter James (writer)

Hate wears you down and doesn't hurt your enemy. It's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'll tell you in two words — Im possible.

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

G. Edward Griffin

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

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 am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

Stephen Kendrick

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Steven Soderbergh

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

It should be a good story— speak about a time and place that is permanent. It should capture something wonderful with some great characters whether it's set in the past or in the future.

Ismail Merchant

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.

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

A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.

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.

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

David O. Selznick

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

Stirling Silliphant

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.

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

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