D.W. Griffith Quotes

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

The 'good food' is...the food of the Word of God, for as food builds up the tissues of the body, repairs waste, and preserves us in health, so the Word of God is the complete food of the soul.

I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.

We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

ObamaCare will ultimately destroy valuable jobs.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.

Dogs own space and cats own time.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.