Arthur Hiller Quotes

He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.

Arthur Hiller

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• Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Strong
  • Dead
  • Older

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Tell
  • Early
  • Storytelling

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Political
  • Model
  • Connection

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Guy

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Accomplishment
  • Be Yourself

• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • People
  • Love
  • Comedy

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Fiction

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Nothing
  • Triumph

• I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Audience
  • Characters

• My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Grandmother

• I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

  

  Agnes Gund

• You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • People

• Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

  

  David Icke
  • Mind
  • Humanity

• He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.

  

  Arthur Hiller
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