E. V. Lucas Quotes

Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Never tell me the odds!

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

Time is more important to me than money.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Good luck has its storms.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

Hard work always wins in the end.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

Mom worked with autistic children.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think