Sylvia Sidney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
-
To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
-
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
-
Film has to describe and show.
-
There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
-
Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
-
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
-
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
-
I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
-
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
-
Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
-
There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
-
When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
-
I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
-
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
-
Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.
-
You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films. I could always do something else if I got sick of it, like draw manga, or make my own films. I found it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I'd like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
-
My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
-
A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
-
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
-
Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
