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I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'...
JUDITH VIORST With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you...
ALEX KURTZMAN I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y...
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TABITHA KING
ALLISON SCHROEDER
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. ... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film ca... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y... FRANCES MCDORMAND I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlim...
DAVID NEWMAN
When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it&#... CATE BLANCHETT When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he s...
DAVID ALAN BASCHE
When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. CARMEN ELECTRA
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl... JONAH HILL When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't...
PAUL GREENGRASS
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to... JESSICA SIMPSON
When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're... SURESH RAINA
It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... HELEN MIRREN
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRANE
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? ... ROBBIE COLTRAINE
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - o... DAMIEN HIRST The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass'...
BAM MARGERA The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER
I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what... ERIC IDLE I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I&#...
KELLY MASTERSON
I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be... AMY SEDARIS
When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you... ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA
It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if y... KEVIN SPACEY
I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha... JOSS WHEDON I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi...
PATRICK MARBER
I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Whi... KARAN JOHAR
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess... CHUCK D Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip...
ALAN TUDYK
Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film a... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. JANE FONDA
If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spe... ROBERT DE NIRO
I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a fil... PETER JACKSON
I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing w... SONAKSHI SINHA
Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad... KEKE PALMER
It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca... LENA DUNHAM 'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked...
LAZ ALONSO Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor...
CLARKE PETERS The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the pla...
JERRY WEST It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of i...
CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO
People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thi... EDWARD ZWICK I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
ABEL FERRARA When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can alw...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People f...
BAZ LUHRMANN One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' t...
TOBIN BELL
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, t... SHIA LABEOUF I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product, and ...
DAVID ANDERS Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you&...
BRIAN J. WHITE
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spirit... AL FRANKEN
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading thi... JENNY AGUTTER One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way ...
JONATHAN ANDERSON It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go...
DAMIAN LEWIS I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouti...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the scrip... DAVID TENNANT I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days late...
MICHAEL OWEN
I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're... KRISTEN WIIG When the pastor's up there, they do this thing called looping. They are literally riffing and sp...
ANDERSON PAAK
I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would sugges... MITT ROMNEY
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England th... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l... AVA DUVERNAY
The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a differ... ERIN WASSON I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great...
ASIF KAPADIA
When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of you... BILL HADER I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I alwa...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG
It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of ha... PETE SAMPRAS I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me ...
KURT ELLING When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
HANK AZARIA
You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's c... MARIA SHRIVER
I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's... KATE WINSLET
There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always b... NICK CAVE
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily.... XAVIER DOLAN
That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... MATT DAMON
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... RAY LEWIS When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I&...
MAIKA MONROE
When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zon... KIRSTEN DUNST Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I...
CAROL BARTZ I pole-dance. I do. I do it at an aerobics center. Having done gymnastics for 13 years, I find it...
SERINDA SWAN As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you g...
BYRON HOWARD
I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'... JUDITH VIORST With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you...
ALEX KURTZMAN I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y...
DAVID ANDERS But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one bei...
HUGH GRANT
I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and... EDDIE REDMAYNE
When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one d... ZENDAYA
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in thei... CLINT EASTWOOD I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it...
SPIKE JONZE I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally'...
JAMIE DORNAN But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not ...
DAVID LLOYD
When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... JASON KIDD
Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w... RAF SIMONS There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character yo...
MARC DAVIS There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness,...
JOE FLAHERTY They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attra...
GUY RITCHIE
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking... TAMORA PIERCE
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been ... KATHY IRELAND
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... CINDY CRAWFORD Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo...
TABITHA KING
