David MacKenzie Quotes
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
-
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
-
I believe in the free enterprise system.
-
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
-
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
-
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
-
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
-
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
-
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
-
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
-
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
-
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
-
I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
-
I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
-
If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
-
I live with three boys, and I can't tell you how hard it is to get your hands on toilet paper. They steal it.
-
Age considers; youth ventures.
-
I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.
-
We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same with 'Doom 4'. We had offers early on for 'Rage'. People offered us X million dollars. But we carried the risk, and when we finally signed a deal, it was X plus $10 million.
-
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
