#wood

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#lot #lyrics #melody #other #song

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #easily #guy #had #hollywood

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#finest #hollywood #leather #novels #order

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#being #between #charmed #either #entire

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#come #fields #groves #hills #live

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#comes #good #hollywood

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beyond #blowing #called #come #excessively

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#been #body #certain #empty #excellent