"Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Jeremy Davies

#Opportunity Quotes #Track Quotes #House Quotes

“It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.”
“Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.”

Source : Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed: a Sermon [on John Iii. 36], Etc”, p.35
“It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.”
“I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.”
“Small government is beautiful”
“'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.”

Source : Peter Biskind (2010). “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
“The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.”
“On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' . . . Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.”

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