S.A. David Quotes
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.
As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
I think that's my approach: If it feels right for a scene to be whole, to hold on without cutting for a long time, then that's great. But other scenes, they don't want it.
The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.
I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him.
My bandmate once pissed his pants when we were playing in Brazil - but we weren't embarrassed, we were proud.
Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.
You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.
When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
