#were

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#down #good #i #mainly #movies

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#frightened #i #like #more #movies

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#i #immediate #incredibly #know #like

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#because #careful #cast #certain #comes

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#betray #cave #differently #else #fact

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#been #box #box office #culture #even

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. ↗

— George Eads

#brave #cliche #colors #dad #fan

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#anything #around #been #beginning #fact

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#i #plusses #problems #really #see