D.W. Griffith Quotes
I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.
There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.
You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.
If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.
I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.
Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.
Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense
The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it
A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour
We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?
Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race
I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
