William Friedkin Quotes

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

William Friedkin

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Team
  • Passionate
  • England

• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

  

  Jack Palance
  • Important
  • Live
  • Together

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • You
  • Creative
  • Pressure

• If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Passionate
  • Sacred
  • Feminine

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Energy

• I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Believe
  • True
  • Creative

• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Passionate

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Career
  • Creative

• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Harmony
  • Season
  • Companions

• The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if only we had known. Well, we do know now. But what are we doing? Maybe a poet like Lowell brought America a little nearer to its boiling point.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Quality

• The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • Great
  • Christian

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

  

  William Friedkin
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