Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried… — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“A smile is the best way to get oneself out of a tight spot, even if it is a fake one. Surprisingly… — Naruto Shippuden Copy Share Image
It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen,… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, the most dramatic and the most dread-inspiring thing is when the audience can see more than the characters themselves… — Davis Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera.… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
If there was a pause in a conversation with anyone, you could always light a cigarette, or if a man lit a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
