With People Quotes

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

People are different in different situations and people are different online than they are in real life.

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

The fun thing about journalism is if you go do a story about something, you can now ask three intelligent questions about it. Or say three intelligent things. And that gets people talking.

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

If you're at my level and you go to a bookstore, even a good turnout is not that many people. Sometimes it is. But for the most part, it's not a huge turnout.

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

In films, people sometimes forget and concentrate on the fight itself, which is great, but the 15 minutes that come beforehand are equally as breathtaking.

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.

History is littered with people who came up with great ideas and saw others profit from them. You need to make sure you don't join their ranks.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.

The people rate strength before everything.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.