D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

D. A. Pennebaker

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • You
  • Just
  • Throw

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Applause
  • Carries

• If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Song

• I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

  

  Jacqueline Leo
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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