All Quotes

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.
‐‐ Rouben Mamoulian

A film of my life would never happen!
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
‐‐ Robin Tunney

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
‐‐ Julia Bacha

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
‐‐ Dakota Johnson

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.
‐‐ Tim Reid

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.
‐‐ Claire Denis

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
‐‐ Frank Grillo

A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
‐‐ Kim Jong Il

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
‐‐ James Salter

A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
‐‐ David Lynch

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

A final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians has to be based on a program of exchange of territory and populations.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
‐‐ Sabine Lisicki

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
‐‐ Francis Crick

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
‐‐ David Wilkerson

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel

A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.
‐‐ John Schneider

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
‐‐ Arthur Wing Pinero

A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.
‐‐ Mary Roach

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.
‐‐ Julia Glass

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
‐‐ Joseph Roux

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.
‐‐ Brian McKnight

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
‐‐ Karl Kraus

A finished person is a boring person.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
‐‐ Art Linkletter

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
‐‐ Garrett Hardin

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
‐‐ Oleg Cassini

A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
‐‐ T. E. Lawrence

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
‐‐ Bill Gates

A first impulse was never a crime.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
‐‐ Maggie Grace

A first love always occupies a special place.
‐‐ Lee Konitz

A first love is something that lasts forever in your heart. It's something that marks you.
‐‐ Elodie Yung

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.
‐‐ Stuart Woods

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
‐‐ Anna Freud

A fish is more valuable swimming in the sea maintaining the integrity of oceanic eco-systems than it is on anyone's plate.
‐‐ Paul Watson