57 quotes found
Filmmaker · American · 1946
American filmmaker (born 1946)
“I dream for a living.”
“He never gave up. And he does that for us”
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.”
“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”
“Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.”
“My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.”
“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I dont know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.”
“Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.”
“Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her---a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling b...”
“Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine ...”
“Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.”
“I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.”
“I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.”
“I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.”
“Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to...”
“There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.”
“All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.”
“Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.”
“I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.”
“The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good st...”
“Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.”