My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animat...
GORE VERBINSKI My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something y...
GORE VERBINSKI Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor...
GORE VERBINSKI If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shar...
GORE VERBINSKI I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that...
GORE VERBINSKI Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pull...
GORE VERBINSKI On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the f...
GORE VERBINSKI I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have ...
GORE VERBINSKI Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tou...
GORE VERBINSKI Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to...
GORE VERBINSKI Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.
GORE VERBINSKI I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they'...
GORE VERBINSKI I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's n...
GORE VERBINSKI My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to ...
GORE VERBINSKI This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of th...
GORE VERBINSKI The Weather Man,
GORE VERBINSKI What's nice about him is that he has more confidence in swallowing a pebble and letting the ripples ...
GORE VERBINSKI ‘The Weather Man’ is like a mirror,
GORE VERBINSKI I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ...
GORE VIDAL McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
GORE VIDAL I can understand companionship.
GORE VIDAL Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He u...
GORE VIDAL The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li...
GORE VIDAL I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
GORE VIDAL What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p...
GORE VIDAL The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them ...
GORE VIDAL As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a pol...
GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No Fi...
GORE VIDAL At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some eviden...
GORE VIDAL Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDAL Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
AL GORE How could this [Y2K] be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
AL GORE No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glo...
AL GORE When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the...
AL GORE I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country...
AL GORE The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up al...
AL GORE The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possib...
AL GORE Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume th...
AL GORE to mend some fences, both literally and figuratively.
AL GORE I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDAL I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ...
GORE VIDAL Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDAL Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness witho...
GORE VIDAL Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an...
GORE VIDAL That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness...
GORE VIDAL The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ...
AL GORE Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
GORE VIDAL Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is...
GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence...
GORE VIDAL Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDAL It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr...
GORE VIDAL I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDAL There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex...
GORE VIDAL Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer...
GORE VIDAL I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
GORE VIDAL Never have children, only grand children.
GORE VIDAL Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,...
GORE VIDAL I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ...
GORE VIDAL When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C...
GORE VIDAL How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time...
GORE VIDAL There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master...
GORE VIDAL Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a...
GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi...
GORE VIDAL You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.
TIPPER GORE For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are...
GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ...
GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...
GORE VIDAL Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh...
GORE VIDAL It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag...
GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ...
GORE VIDAL To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,...
GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live...
GORE VIDAL Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.
GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ...
GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t...
GORE VIDAL It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we...
GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
GORE VIDAL Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
ARIEL GORE I'm a born-again atheist.
GORE VIDAL Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i...
GORE VIDAL There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up...
AL GORE It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real trag...
GORE VIDAL We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th...
GORE VIDAL For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, t...
GORE VIDAL I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.
KRISTIN GORE I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about ...
ARIEL GORE On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a deb...
GORE VIDAL Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDAL I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
AL GORE I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is g...
AL GORE When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh...
MARTIN GORE The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body...
KRISTIN GORE In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set...
KRISTIN GORE Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
AL GORE When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ...
ARIEL GORE Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls ...
AL GORE Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a...
GORE VIDAL I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for m...
GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...
GORE VIDAL Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Repu...
GORE VIDAL In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscene...
AL GORE To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not al...
GORE VIDAL Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr...
AL GORE As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil ...
AL GORE I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
AL GORE Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a c...
AL GORE I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and g...
AL GORE Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain...
AL GORE By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re...
GORE VIDAL It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
GORE VIDAL Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t...
GORE VIDAL I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ...
AL GORE Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunatel...
MARTIN GORE I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased beha...
GORE VIDAL Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w...
GORE VIDAL As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ...
LESLEY GORE Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf...
GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha...
AL GORE Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital informat...
AL GORE There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dram...
AL GORE Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a f...
GORE VIDAL I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev...
AL GORE Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
GORE VIDAL I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-li...
ARIEL GORE Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could ev...
AL GORE In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he wa...
GORE VIDAL I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are ...
AL GORE I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDAL As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyd...
AL GORE The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
GORE VIDAL It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four per...
GORE VIDAL There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to ...
AL GORE Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
GORE VIDAL The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for chan...
AL GORE No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be...
GORE VIDAL That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDAL Envy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDAL I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the sc...
GORE VIDAL I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDAL If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don...
AL GORE By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als...
GORE VIDAL Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriousl...
GORE VIDAL I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fash...
AL GORE The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The q...
AL GORE The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known an...
AL GORE The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice ...
AL GORE I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for m...
KRISTIN GORE I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
KRISTIN GORE The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself a...
GORE VIDAL The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
TIPPER GORE Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Many people have...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ...
CHARLES GORE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the ...
CHARLES GORE Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. ...
TIPPER GORE Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the ...
TIPPER GORE If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil...
AL GORE There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The...
MARTIN GORE As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo...
MARTIN GORE There are definite reference points to older Depeche Mode records.
MARTIN GORE For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
GORE VIDAL Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
GORE VIDAL For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
GORE VIDAL Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDAL I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to ...
GORE VIDAL Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for c...
GORE VIDAL I might be President by now if it weren't for this 'queer' thing
GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualifi...
GORE VIDAL A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
GORE VIDAL The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who...
GORE VIDAL A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDAL All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDAL The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we ca...
GORE VIDAL Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL