#own

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#because #done #every #exactly #film

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#helen #i #known #louis #morris

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life. ↗

— Gena Lee Nolin

#down #enjoy #enjoy life #life #me

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line? ↗

— Diana Nyad

#determining #each #finish #finish line #life

Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks. ↗

— Lou Thesz

#atlanta #bucks #buy #by the time #dollars

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook. ↗

— Gary Ross

#bed #edge #goes #going #kid

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#down #i #look #sit #time

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#character #characters #cry #crying #down

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#director #film #film set #find #go

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#being #creature #force #into #itself