Charles Martin Smith Quotes

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

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• I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Time
  • You
  • Know

• In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Play
  • Like
  • Story

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
  • See

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Chance
  • Commitment
  • Will

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• 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

• I am myself of a mixed background.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Background

• I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Wife
  • Understanding

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Fashion
  • Vintage

• This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Problem
  • Find
  • Solution

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Management
  • Hat

• I do not seek. I find.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Find
  • Seek
  • Brainy

• Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Working
  • Sense
  • Writers

• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Party

• I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

  

  Annette Messager
  • See
  • Desires
  • Reveal

• At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

  

  Stephen Kinzer
  • Journalism
  • Function
  • Reporters

• I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

  

  Charles Martin Smith
  • Want
  • Film
  • Levels