The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
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NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film,... MIKE FIGGIS Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after the... CLAUDE BERRI Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev... SAMUEL GOLDWYN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the peo... BRUNO DUMONT Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much. DOUGLAS ADAMS The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizab... DOUGLAS ADAMS God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience. DOUGLAS ADAMS Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. DEMUTH You learned right away that applause sounds like love. AVA DELLAIRA ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been foun... 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CRISTOPHER ROBIN TO WINNIE THE POOH Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA While nothing can replace the theatrical experience, we want people to have the opportunity to see o... AMY PASCAL I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES My plan was to stay in Canada to make films. TED KOTCHEFF There is an art to casting. And I hope we will see more ensemble films. I don't like star-led films,... WOLFGANG PETERSEN until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Motivational Force STEVE RECHEL I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - g... YASH CHOPRA Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh... DOROTHY B. HUGHES To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Every... MAHESH BABU Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see q... DAVID A. R. WHITE If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on... MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN
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