Arthur Hiller Quotes
People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
-
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
-
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-
Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
-
I don't know the right way to retire.
-
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
-
We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
-
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
-
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
-
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
-
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
-
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
-
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
-
If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
-
Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
-
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
-
I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
-
I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
-
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
-
I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
-
I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.
-
I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
-
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
-
People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
