Alan J. Pakula famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
-- Alan J. Pakula

#Passion #Careers #Trying
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
-- Alan J. Pakula

#Hands #Directors #Use
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
-- Alan J. Pakula

#Communication #Thinking #Giving
Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
-- Alan J. Pakula

#Actors #Way #Certain

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
Iâ€™d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because itâ€™s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Alan J. Pakula famous quotes

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