"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."

People, Being, Film, Literary

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

People, Economy

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

People, Problems, Want

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Common sense, Mistakes

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

People,

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

People, English, Living, Now

Explore more quotes by Taylor Hackford

"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."

Business, Society, People

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."

Performance, Devil

"I make films about working class people."

People, Class

"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."

Devil, Metaphor

"And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world."

Ego, Order, Question, World

"My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer."

Movies, Credit, Film, Writer

"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."

Performance, Actor

"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."

Music,

"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."

Film,

"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."

Business, Life, Music