#mma

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#attention #could #experience #filmmaker #frustrated

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#command #elite #fighter #high #luftwaffe

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #command #everything #hour #only

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#authorized #coalition #coalition forces #command #force

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. ↗

— Diane Lane

#film #filmmaking #hen #i #i think

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#even #gentlemen #ladies #majority #mammals

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#bill #commandments #gave #gives #house

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. ↗

— John Lasseter

#animation #baby #big #computer #could

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas. ↗

— Ang Lee

#canvas #chance #film #filmmaker #personal

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed