Film makers
Darren Aronofsky
“I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets”
Oliver Stone
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”
Harmony Korine
“Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most”
Terrence Malick
“Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? “It could be better.” Think about it.”
Martin Scorsese
“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions”
David Lynch
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” / “If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.”
Christopher Nolan
“Breaking rules isn’t interesting. It’s making up new ones that keeps things exciting.”
Quentin Tarantino
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”
James Cameron
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses success.
Sofia Coppola
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway”
Stanley
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
JJ Abrams
“Every story has at least a little truth in it. Every story comes from somewhere.”
