Material Quotes

2445 Material quotes by 1790 unique authors

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and… — Frank Darabont
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind… — Garret Dillahunt
My material life is simple. — Gustavo Dudamel
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well… — Willem Dafoe
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music… — Tennessee Ernie Ford
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone… — Alex Garland
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you… — Bede Griffiths
I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised… — Alice Englert
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its… — Lascelles Abercrombie
I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the… — Peter Ackroyd
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions. — Alan Bradley
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material. — Jennifer Egan
As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production… — Atom Egoyan
The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of… — David Eagleman
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this… — Will Eisner
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad.… — Sutton Foster
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and… — Johan Huizinga
We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl. — Madonna Ciccone
I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker.… — Francis Ford Coppola
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it… — G. H. Hardy
Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with… — Kool Moe Dee
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living… — Arthur C. Clarke
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete. — Carl G. Fisher
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy

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