"It's great when you can bait and switch people - and I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in truth. If we were advertising this movie as a very serious indictment about the hunt for war criminals, and it's a very dark drama, it would probably get great reviews, but people would stay away from it because no one wants to be lectured."

-- Richard Shepard

#Drama Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“After weeks on the road, listening to a language you donâ€™t understand, using a currency whose value you donâ€™t comprehend, walking down streets youâ€™ve never walked down before, you discover that your old â€œI,â€ along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.”
“To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch”
“You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it”
“Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.”
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.”
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.”
“Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books
“It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.”

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