Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
Imelda Marcos -
All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
Ilana Glazer -
My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
Adam Brown -
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
H. P. Lovecraft -
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron Eckhart -
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson -
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
Quincy Jones -
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia -
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
Iain Sinclair -
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A. R. Rahman
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
Salman Rushdie -
When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.
Lori Wilde -
Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.
Jeremy Robinson -
Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
Billy Collins -
Love and the imagination are connected.
Ali Smith -
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams
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We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
Eglantyne Jebb -
Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.
Bessel van der Kolk -
My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
Mandy Patinkin -
Hope for the best. Expect the worst. The world's a stage. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks -
True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.
William Wordsworth -
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
Stanley Kubrick