Making Quotes

The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

I don't know what's going on that I'm hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it's an honor and a privilege that I'm the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

I'm not really interested in making money.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.