Crispian Mills Quotes

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

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• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Accomplishment
  • Be Yourself

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Just

• We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Love
  • Business
  • Nature

• In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Business
  • Day
  • Plan

• I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Hobby

• The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Funny
  • Woman
  • Grateful

• Think with your whole body.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Think
  • Body
  • inspirational

• Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

  

  Laura Marano
  • World
  • Kids
  • Power

• It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • May
  • Space
  • Brain

• Tea is a huge part of my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Tea

• There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country

• The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Education
  • College
  • Boy

• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  

  Mary Pickford
  • Lipstick

• It's hard when people die, but there's something about when people die suddenly.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • People
  • Die

• I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Reading
  • Author

• You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

  

  John Oliver
  • Job

• The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Replace

• The other was that all the major civil rights organizations, new as well as old, were committed to the philosophy of non-violence, the doctrine preached by the most conspicuous leader in the Negro movement, Martin Luther King. ‘We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer,’ he told the whites, ‘and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Philosophy
  • Nonviolence
  • Civil Rights

• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Road

• I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Ang Lee
  • History
  • Movie
  • Knowledge

• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Space
  • Film
  • Actors

• Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

  

  Crispian Mills
  • Film
  • Waiting
  • Persons