"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas." Jean-Luc Godard |
"I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting." Werner Herzog |
"Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have." Tom Ford |
"Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same." Hayao Miyazaki |
"Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world." Patti Smith |
"The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room." Orson Welles |
"Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world." Alan Rickman |
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Soren Kierkegaard |
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust |
"Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin |
"Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak." Richard Branson |
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." Jesse Jackson |
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Sir Winston Churchill |
"Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future." Elie Wiesel |
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius |
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau |
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison |
"I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work." Hayao Miyazaki |
"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing." Andy Warhol |
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." Aldous Huxley |
"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows." Alexandra Stoddard |
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill |
"Learning never exhausts the mind." Leonardo da Vinci |
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art." Susan Sontag |
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." Mark Twain |
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." John C. Maxwell |
"There is nothing permanent except change." Heraclitus |
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." Franklin D. Roosevelt |
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper." Stanley Kubrick |
"The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same." Jim Jarmusch |
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