Elliot Grove famous quotes

The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.
-- Elliot Grove

#Successful #Action #Knowledgeable

Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.
-- Elliot Grove

#Careers #Earning #Ploughing

Invest in learning and discovering new filmmaking techniques is the next keystone to success. Film is changing rapidly right now. The last big change was the introduction of sound. This time around it is movies on th internet and mobile telephones.
-- Elliot Grove

#Lasts #Next #Telephones

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.