Makes Quotes

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.