Hillary Clinton Quotes
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
Quotes to Explore
-
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
Low budget movies make lots of money.
-
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.
-
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
-
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
-
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
-
Movies are too literal.
-
People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
-
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
-
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
-
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
-
I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
-
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
-
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
-
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
-
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
-
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
-
When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.
-
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
-
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
-
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.
-
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
