Michael Winner Quotes
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I choose to express myself.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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You don't become the character.
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I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.
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Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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I write novels and other things.
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Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
