Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
-
I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
-
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
-
Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
-
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
-
I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
-
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
-
I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
-
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
-
Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
-
When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
-
Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
-
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
-
I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
-
Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.
-
Cinema is incredibly concise.
-
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
-
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
-
I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.
-
I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
-
I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
-
Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.
-
I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.
