#hand

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. ↗

— Alex Cox

#big #big problem #corporations #creates #dictate

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#david #days #early #ever #merchandising

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#before #break #either #find #handicapped

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. ↗

— Ice Cube

#aspect #chance #creative #design #director

I didn't want to tell you I'd been scared, much less why. I guess that was stupid." "It was." "Aren't you supposed to say something like 'no, it wasn't. Blah, blah, support, stroke, let me get you some chocolate'?" "You haven't red the marriage handbook's footnotes. It's another woman who does that sort of thing. I believe I'm allowed to be more blunt, then ask if you'd like a quick shag." "Shag yourself ↗

— J.D. Robb

#marriage-handbook #roarke #death

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character. ↗

— Matt Damon

#beforehand #character #figure #fun #i

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #hand #spirit #where #work

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#came #cement #felt #hand #i

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#chi #difficult #ever #good #habit

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#been #better #could #done #drop