Evan Mandery Quotes

I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.

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• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movies
  • Writer
  • Employee

• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Home
  • Think
  • Movies

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Way
  • Care
  • Movies

• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movies
  • Sense
  • Director

• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Like
  • Movies

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Couple
  • Movies

• I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Movies

• Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Changed

• You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Learn
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Movies
  • Falling

• There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Up
  • Care
  • Inspired

• My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Different
  • Independent

• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.

  

  Adam Kirsch
  • Luck
  • Blood
  • Writer

• Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • Ideas
  • Vision
  • Childlike

• I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.

  

  Evan Mandery
  • Movies
  • Imagine
  • iPod