You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse
I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what`s already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don`t care about the difference, anyway! And wh...
Bill Watterson
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man`s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
My view is that you should always do remakes of failures. Then you`ve got nowhere to go but up, you know? They can`t say, "Well, it`s not as good as the original, you made a piece of crap". They`d just say, "What a piece of crap that was," anyway.
Michael Caine
[Talking about making the original Robocop (1987)]: "When I was making it, I knew it was going to be a great thing, but you never know whether they are going to be successful or not. I knew we where making a fantastic social allegory, and, I don`t want to...
Peter Weller
On being compared to Rekha in the original version of Umrao Jaan (1981): "For me, as an actor, it`s a special experience to get the opportunity to play Umrao Jaan who has been already iconised on our celluloid. When I played Paro in Devdas, I went through...
Aishwarya Rai
The idea is to always go for the thing that`s risky. I want to be courageous and original. And original means, you don`t know what `colour` movie you just saw.
M. Shyamalan
The idea is to always go for the thing that`s risky. I want to be courageous and original. And original means, you don`t know what `colour` movie you just saw.
M. Shyamalan
In the second grade, I went to a friend`s house and we snuck into the original Nightmare on Elm Street. I was absolutely terrified for a month, because I had never been allowed to watch movies like this. My mother had to take me to the pediatrician to fig...
Monica Keena
On the changes made to Nathaniel Hawthorne`s "The Scarlet Letter" (she starred in the adaptation): In truth, not very many people have read the book...the ultimate message of "Hester Prynne" would have been lost if we`d stayed with the original ending.
Demi Moore
[On why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn`t a grain of originality in it - it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end...
John Carpenter
Describing working with Harrison Ford on the original Star Wars (1977): Mark was 24, I was 19 and he [Harrison] was 33. He was like the big man on campus. You looked at him and you said to yourself, `He`s going to be a star.`
Carrie Fisher
[on directing] No "mise en scène" has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a "mise en scène" turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept (however original it may be), then the whole thing - characters, situation,...
Andrei Tarkovsky
I think I had a very lucky break when we asked Mike Newell to do Four Weddings. Mike is a very serious, beautiful person, a wonderful director. What he succeeded in doing was to hide the fact that the original script read much more like a series of sketch...
Richard Curtis
[Acknowledging Geoffrey Unsworth for developing the photography process that made the flying scenes in the original Superman film possible]: "If it hadn`t been for Geoffrey Unsworth, we wouldn`t have had a movie."
Richard Donner
I`m flattered if someone comes to me with the idea of remaking one of my films. Remake or original, making a movie still comes down to old-fashioned hard work. If it`s based on another film, well, so be it. Remakes have been part of cinema since its earli...
John Carpenter
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law
Thomas Paine
