Donald Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
-
I am a very reclusive, private person.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
There is no better high than discovery.
-
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
-
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-
Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
-
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
-
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
-
Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
-
Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
-
I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
-
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
-
I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
-
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
-
What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
-
In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.
-
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
-
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
-
God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
