Making Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.