Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Day
  • Brain

• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
  • Overcome

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • You
  • Me

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Now
  • Destroy
  • Become

• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Trust
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Want

• I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Project

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Great
  • Right
  • Shine

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Pride

• For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Writers
  • Isolation
  • Detached

• Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Tears
  • Sadness
  • Fit

• So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

  

  Joshua Michael Stern
  • Guy
  • Film
  • Jobs

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Film
  • Shoot