Famous Quotes: Art

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.
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My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead.
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As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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People are smarter than you might think.
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
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I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.
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