The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
That one long scene in the Leftovers I have with David Gulpilil was seven pages long. When we finished it, Mimi Leder… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I was really impressed with Naomi [Watts]. She was a producer, and she was doing things that I wasn't really aware of.… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
When there's no technical problems, if you did the right casting, and the scene is well written, the actor will give you… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession.… — Sue Sanders Copy Share Image
What I do is whatever it takes, it takes. Sometimes you see a scene right away and a take looks great so… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
It's a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it's very dark and mysterious. There are some great chorus scenes… — James Marvel Copy Share Image
Maybe it's good that we are so slow with everything. We were saved from the damages that took place in the last… — Thomas Koner Copy Share Image
When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Usually I approach to acting completely blindfolded. I read the script, I connect to the character, and then I try not to… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go,… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image