"When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are."

-- John Cassavetes

#Crazy Quotes #Able Quotes #Tough Quotes

“There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.”
“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery”
“I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?”
“On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?”
“I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.”

Source : "‘Toy Story 3’ Filmmakers: This Is Not Kids’ Stuff". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 2, 2010.
“The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.”

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