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

• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Man
  • Black
  • Movies

• Movies are too literal.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Movies
  • Too
  • Literal

• 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

• You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Style
  • Film

• Love is a beautiful feeling.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Worst

• I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Gymnastics
  • Perfectionist

• 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