#them

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#confidence #directing #else #entirely #i

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#dealing #deals #family #film #i

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. ↗

— John Boehner

#best #children #dad #flourish #mom

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#logical #mathematics #poetry #pure #way

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#dollar #even #libel #look #many

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#better #displease #doing #know #may

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#i think #making #many #out #people