#want

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#hold #how #keep #knows #make

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#first #i #novel #read #wanted

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#am #american #american administration #american people #any

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it. ↗

— Valerie Harper

#ego #forget #get #got #i

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#difficulties #drink #go #movies #our

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation. ↗

— Dante Hall

#applied #everyone #situation #treat #treated

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

#heighten #i #make #order #our

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know? ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#certainly #david #i #imagination #know