Michael Apted Quotes

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Michael Apted

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Work
  • Love
  • Me

• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Kids

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Hope

• For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.'

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Imagination

• Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Present

• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Imagination
  • Fly

• There's so much more that I want to do. Of course it's great what has happened so far: Ultra, Coachella, EDC. But still, production-wise and show-wise, I'd love to play a show at Madison Square Garden. Stuff like that is beyond my imagination.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Wise

• Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

  

  Diana Krall
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

  

  Franklin Pierce Adams
  • Imagination

• I love Whitney Houston. I absolutely love her song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

  

  Hayley Orrantia
  • Song
  • Whitney Houston
  • I Wanna Dance With Somebody

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Enemy

• Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Control
  • Moral

• It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

  

  Michael Apted
  • Imagination
  • Actors
  • Innovative