#ld

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#aspiring #being #better #director #disregard

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#articulate #collaborator #david #director #easy

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ↗

— Hermann Goering

#best #come #course #farm #get

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#compete #female #girl #good #good thing

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#berlin #city #confident #creates #extent

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#expect #glasses #habitually #look #wear

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#because #colonies #impossible #keep #know

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #country #did #down #falling