"A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy things to identify. The third is the creativity, and that is very difficult to identify in advance. This is why so many of the directors who have started with me were my assistant - the first one was Francis Ford Coppola."

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Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

Roger Corman

#Creativity Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.”
“Personally, itâ€™s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and youâ€™re not gonna leave your...whatever!”
“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”

Source : "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.
“The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.”
“It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.”
“It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.”
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.”

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