F. F. Bruce Quotes

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called 'fun'.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

If this is a good-luck month for us, that would be great.

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

You'll lose about two million brain cells every minute that goes by.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

I like the TV format. I like how fast it is.

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

Digital blood is not effective.

Early youth is a baffling time

The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.