M.K. Alexander Quotes
A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.
I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.
Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version?" Then I just follow my nose.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.
But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
