J. Lee Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
-- J. Lee Thompson

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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
-- J. Lee Thompson

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Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
-- J. Lee Thompson

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When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasnâ€™t been one big decision.
The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

J. Lee Thompson famous quotes

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