on directing

"Find your marks, say a few lines."
- Clint Eastwood [born 1930]

on movie acting

"A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie."

Sir Ridley Scott [born 1937] in conversation here.

smile

 

"The only thing sadder than a person in a bad situation who knows it, is a person who doesn't know they're in trouble."
- Nicholas Cage [born 1964]

routine

"I will do nothing for months. Then the night before it's due, I will sit up and crank out 50 pages."
- Billy Bob Thornton [born 1955]

"you can never trust what you read"

“Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.”

– William Goldman [1931-2018]

embarrassing

"It got to the point where I was so isolated with my work, music that I became socially awkward, strange. But I recovered. I integrated back into society through mixing , circulating"
- John Legend [born 1978] who is an EGOT by winning and Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.

gimp

"If people in your life are not uncomfortable, then you're not really writing."
- Quentin Tarantino [born 1963]

taste

"I don't like plays after the third performance. On Broadway it goes on for 8 times a week for months and I get bored regurgitating the same lines over and over. Movies are better. One take and done."
- Sir Anthony Hopkins [born 1937]

greatest deathbed fear

To have ever said, "I am not brave."
- Viola Davis [born 1965]

most famous non-historian historian

from killing racoons to winning an oscar

Serenity Now

 

blast

Bill Munny

It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away everything he's got and everything he's ever gonna have.

leave it for kids to solve

dear basketball

on Hollywood

"There are a lot of broken people in this business."
- Billy Bob Thornton

on addiction

"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
- Robin Williams

gargoyles

"First there was prostitution. Then carving."

- On the second oldest profession 

The Stone Carvers: Fetter, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1863-1949 here.

Amidst the gargoyles of Washington (D.C.) Cathedral, some of the last remaining Italian-American stone carvers demonstrate their traditional skills and exchange lively stories about their customs and work experiences. Shows that from the Gothic cathedrals of Europe to the beaux-arts skyscrapers of New York, these carvers have brought enduring beauty to the environment. Directed and produced by Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival, and Academy Award winner.

mantra

"Fix the earth."
- George Clooney