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I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#could #direct #else #great #had

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#astonishing #children #conditions #education #fact

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#civilized #civilized society #cornerstones #exist #good

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#been #felt #haven #i #needed

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#early #glorify #great #great people #history

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#general #impulses #organized #our #preservation

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#camera #house #looking #marks #out

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. ↗

— James Chiles

#dirty #dollar #organized #sharp #side

In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#because #between #black #black and white #book

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#crazy #days #draw #even #fashion