All Quotes

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
‐‐ Joel Robuchon

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them.
‐‐ Ray Stannard Baker

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
‐‐ Gene Ween

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
‐‐ Patricia Highsmith

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
‐‐ Randeep Hooda

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
‐‐ Derek Luke

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
‐‐ Beth Ditto

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
‐‐ George Mason

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
‐‐ David Amram

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
‐‐ Susan Cheever

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.
‐‐ Brandon Lee

A fight scene with a crazy can be quite physical. You don't feel it while you're acting, but each day you go, that hurts.
‐‐ Danielle Panabaker

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.
‐‐ Holly Holm

A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
‐‐ Han Fei

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.
‐‐ Eva Green

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
‐‐ Bennett Miller

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
‐‐ David Lynch

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and it's immediate, and people write about it.
‐‐ Timothy Hutton

A film has its own life and takes its own time.
‐‐ Aaron Eckhart

A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
‐‐ Saif Ali Khan

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
‐‐ Javier Camara

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
‐‐ Natasha Richardson

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

A film is a terrible thing to waste.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.
‐‐ John Curran

A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
‐‐ Jason Flemyng

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
‐‐ Orson Welles

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.
‐‐ George Lucas

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.
‐‐ Kenneth More

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
‐‐ Grant Heslov