"Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay."

-- Tim Bevan

#What Matters Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Directors Quotes

“Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.”

Source : Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”
“If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition”
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
“I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of.”
“A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.”
“Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.”
“While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.”
“Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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