top of page
Quote_1.png
John Sayles

"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."

Standard 
 Customized
"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."

Exlpore more Hope quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."

Author Name

Personal Development

Explore more quotes by John Sayles

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."

Creativity

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book."

Work

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean."

Time

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."

Hope

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

Movies

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."

People

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough."

Character

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."

Media

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."

Movies

Quote_1.png
John Sayles
"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"

Work

bottom of page