WN Stanley Quotes

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

Our reverence for workaholism has produced corporate leaders who believe they don't need sleep, and neither should anyone else.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine years old. Fred Astaire influenced me, more than anything, to be in 'show business.

My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

You either care or you don’t.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.