Peter Landesman Quotes

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

Peter Landesman

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • She
  • More
  • Been

• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Long
  • House
  • Success

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • World
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Moon

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

• There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

  

  Feist
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Weird

• It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Play

• The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

  

  Carl Jung

• All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Lost

• If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • May
  • American

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Cool

• You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Knows
  • Smile
  • Sky

• Rufus Alexander made probably the biggest play of the game down at the goal line, and he got the ball back for us.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Game
  • Play
  • Goal Line

• Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

  

  Peter Landesman