Lester Persky famous quotes

In order to make a movie it isn't enough to have a script, it isn't enough to have a director, it isn't enough to have a male actor and a female actor, it isn't enough to have financing. You have to have them all at the same instant.
-- Lester Persky

#Order #Scripts #Directors

I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.
-- Lester Persky

#Swimming #Office #Giving

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.
-- Lester Persky

#Secret #Way #Scripts

The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.
-- Lester Persky

#Scripts #Sin #Boring

Paris may be expensive but I love it. It's the one place to spend money and enjoy.
-- Lester Persky

#Paris #May #Enjoy

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Whether I'm interested [in something] or not, step one is read the script and figure out if a character is someone I'd want to explore or not.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.