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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. James Cameron
You Director Matter Sister Everything Negotiating Something Small Pick Put Fee Budget Name Cheesy How Camera Up Friends Shoot Just After Whether Movies Your Star Now
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. Jean Cocteau
Art Marriage Unconscious Conscious
Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction. Susannah Grant
Ego Addiction Abandoning Recovery Part Checking Go Huge Huge Part Your Letting
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' Quentin Tarantino
Me People School Films Tell Movies Them Ask Film Film School
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock
Man Asthmatic Saw Carrying Indignant Purity Inventor Inspired Never He Arm Pig Understand Sound His Man-Made Achieved Unfortunately
Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted. Ava DuVernay
Myself Creative Experience Creativity People Take For Granted Feeling Energy Magic Something Take Taken Taken For Granted Know Protected Lot Precious Person Granted Creative Person
People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it. David Furnish
Life People Bitterness Poison Only Go Forward Grudges
If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine. Federico Fellini
You Eyes Innocent Everything See Divine
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. Francis Ford Coppola
People Cinema Made Think Magic Magicians Always Were Been Very Closely Movies Who Film Earliest Associated
Good luck has its storms. George Lucas
Good Luck Good Luck Storms Chance
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. Jean-Luc Godard
Fly Long Visa Want Apply
When people are crass or loudmouthed, it's not because they don't give a damn. It's from fear and insecurity. Patty Jenkins
People Fear Insecurity Damn Give Because
Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions. Sarah Gavron
You Yourself People Surround Yourself Find Support Surround Who Champions
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Stanley Kubrick
Great Great Nations Small Small Nations Like Always Nations Acted Gangsters
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen
Life Art Imitate Imitates Television Bad
Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy. Deeyah Khan
Freedom Democracy Freedom Of Speech Restriction Built Any Human Which Human Right Foundation Right Speech
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. George Lucas
You Matter Everybody Talent Until Around Discovered Just Moving
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. James Cameron
Success Failure You Goals Will Else Everyone High Above Fail Your Ridiculously Set
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck. Rohit Shetty
Good Bad Luck Karma Win Will Luck Else Everything Everything Else Bad Follow Over Always Should Your
I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Life Time Life Is Short Too Much Move On Believe Too Too Much Time Bearing Like Move Short Much Wasted Grudges
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. Steven Spielberg
Good Censorship Responsibility Moral Responsibility Good Taste Moral Fine Fine Line Between Line Taste
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. Steven Spielberg
You Yourself People Surround Yourself Made Films Appreciating Collaboration Kid About Could Adult Never Talents Knowing Around Camera Surround Friends Any Your Filmmaking
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. Sydney Pollack
Politics Business Become Think Shame Terrible Show Show Business
There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's searching to be found but, I think, it's not as if everything is going to be automatic. So, people could really be meant for each other and its goes awry; or they could have to learn or develop and grow up together. Grow to be right together. Whit Stillman
Together People Right Person Think Other Right People Everything Could Develop Learn Up Person Goes Going Order Automatic Really Meant Each Grow Grow Up Searching Found Right Awry
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. Woody Allen
Illusion Nothing Everything Definitely Carpet Case Overpaid Exists What If
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Woody Allen
You Live Hundred Give Make Up Want Things
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