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I think the hardest thing about writing is writing. ~Nora Ephron
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. ~ Steve Buscemi
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it. ~ Salman Rushdie
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~ William Dement
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~ Walt Disney
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication. ~ James Dean
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than dreams. ~ Dr. Seuss
How do you examine the illusion within the illusion? In a movie, you can’t take people out, you can’t pull a rug from under them. ~ Ang Lee
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ~ Longfellow
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ~ Bruce Lee
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ~ Ernest Hemingway
A day without laughter is a day wasted. ~ Charlie Chaplin
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ~ Bob Marley
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus
Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps. ~ Mitch Hedberg
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~ Mae West
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I'm not. ~ Kurt Cobain
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ~ Janis Joplin
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. ~ Tim Burton
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~ Wilson Mizner
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be, because we act according to our expectations. ~ Federico Fellini
Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face. ~ Marjorie Rosen
The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society. ~ Kenneth Tynan
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. ~ Susan Sontag
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been an…
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ~ Jean-Luc Godard
I don't believe at all that film is bound by any rules. It is always new, and a principle that is right in one sequence can be completely wrong in the next one. ~ Fritz Lang
One can only develop oneself through influences that come from without. ~ Fritz Lang
My advice to young filmmakers is this: don't follow trends. Start them. ~ Frank Capra
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. ~ Francis Ford Coppola
A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction? ~ Wes Craven
For there is a clear continuity between all forms of expression. It's all one. The important thing is to approach it from the side that suits you best. ~ Jean-Luc Godard
Photography is truth. The Cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. ~Jean-Luc Godard
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like. ~ John Huston
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ~ Frank Capra
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ~Kathryn Bigelow
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out. ~ Martin Scorsese
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. ~Jean-Luc Godard