Lilly Wachowski Quotes

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Lilly Wachowski

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• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Better

• Down time is not the name of the game.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Game
  • Name

• The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Year

• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Important
  • Together

• There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Reading

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eye
  • Ever
  • Public Eye

• I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Team
  • Style
  • Design

• Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Great
  • Small
  • Beatles

• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • You
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Tried
  • Academic
  • Marketplace

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.

  

  August Wilhelm von Hofmann
  • Country
  • Producing
  • Coloring

• I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Never

• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Observation

• It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Work
  • Proud

• I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Wife

• Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

  

  Lilly Wachowski