Charles Burnett Quotes
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
Charles Burnett
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
Kate Moss
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
Barbara Amiel
When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
Sam Trammell
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
Carla Bley
Every education minister today has a chance of introducing in his education today some simple technique, some simple natural insights into the total reality of life, which the physical sciences have explored in terms of 'Unified Field', which the ancient Vedic wisdom has located in the Self referral consciousness of everyone.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
Wallace Stevens
I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
Don Ameche
I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.
Antonio Villaraigosa
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
Danny Masterson
When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
Duncan Jones
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II
What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
Eric Cantor
I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.
Lloyd Bentsen
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
Gary Oldman
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.
Manning Marable
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
Barry Sonnenfeld
I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
Richard Pryor
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
Charles Burnett
