I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl SaganWriters speak stench.
Franz KafkaI’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
George LucasOne of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.
Dwayne JohnsonI read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry PratchettWe are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawBooks! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
BonoI think I belong to America’s last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.
Kurt VonnegutWhen I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
Clint EastwoodEverything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey HepburnI don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
Haruki MurakamiBe not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander PopeThe instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
VoltaireAll writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt VonnegutI like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
Dwayne JohnsonA home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu ReevesI don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul AusterWhen you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.
Paul AusterIf you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.
Robert GreeneSometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Kanye West‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark TwainThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Walt DisneyIf you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.
Brian EnoMovies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.
Clint EastwoodOur physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
Jordan PetersonIn every movie I do have a dialogue.
Jackie ChanWhen I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki MurakamiI’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.
Kurt VonnegutThere should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
George LucasBooks are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John RuskinThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainChange is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
Joyce MeyerNo book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.
Paul AusterThe multitude of books is making us ignorant.
VoltaireYou’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Jeff BezosLife being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John RuskinWe must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy CarterI still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Denzel WashingtonThe book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.
Jeff BezosI have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily DickinsonBooks are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.
Ray BradburyA book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayBefore ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.
Dwayne JohnsonToday, writers want to impress other writers.
Paulo CoelhoThe next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis PresleyI like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerI never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Dolly PartonYou can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor RooseveltWhether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. RowlingWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph AddisonIf the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
Terry PratchettThe dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham LincolnHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconWriters and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.
Margaret AtwoodThose movies sure got me into a rut.
Elvis Presley