Sergio Leone Quotes
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.Sergio Leone
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger -
There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
Barry McGuire -
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
Xavier Niel -
Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
Bebe Neuwirth -
I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
Hans Vestberg -
Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
Dakota Fanning
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts -
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard -
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
Ozwald Boateng -
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles -
Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
Ted Sarandos
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern -
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
Ward Churchill -
As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'
Rachel Sklar -
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
Mads Mikkelsen -
You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey
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You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see your back." I just tell 'em, "I do not twirl. If you want to see my back, when I walk away, you can take a picture of it. I'm not twirling." You know, I twirled once, and I almost fell. It looks ridiculous. So I said I'm not twirling anymore.
Viola Davis -
There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
Sam Altman -
I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.
Carrie Brownstein -
Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.
David F. D'Alessandro -
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
Sergio Leone