#action

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#action movies #day #every #every day #films

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut. ↗

— Andy Kaufman

#get #gut #i #just #laugh

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#because #characters #did #directors #dynamic

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#also #because #before #comprehended #development

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#child #count #distraction #gains #last

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#because #certain #earn #even #five

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#actually #angry #darfur #doing #heard

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#everything #except #first #form #grow

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #freedom #fundamentalism #i #much

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. ↗

— Mark Tobey

#avenues #believe #canals #come #i