attributes success to luck

 

"I had a harder time getting a waiter job than I experienced breaking into the film industry."
- Tim Burton [born 1958]

Psycho writer

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on."

– Robert Bloch [1917-1994]

kicked out high school for cheating

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As punishment, Owen Wilson [born 1968] was sent to the New Mexico Military Institute for two years, where he met Wes Aderson [born 1969] who was friends with his roommate and launched his acting career. 

on anxiety

"When I had too much time to think, all the scary whispers ..."
- Steven Spielberg

on why people still go to the movies

"Because you have a kitchen in your house, but still go out to eat."
- Jerry Bruckheimer 

space opera

"Art on all levels is technology."
- George Lucas

entertainment truism

"If our characters were perfect, there would be no show."

"If they won't go to the box office you can't stop them."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"[In each of my films] I see people who have been shattered, laid low, in a terrible predicament and you watch them pick themselves back up."
- David O. Russell

"The way I work, I feel that I'm doing movies."
- Ralph Lauren

pioneer

"Everybody is simply improvising (without screenwriter words)."
- Steven Spielberg upon receiving the Thalberg award 

dancing

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels."
- Vince Gilligan

"Life is infinitely stranger than the mind of man can invent."
- Alfred Hitchcock

- Attributed to a "wise media theorist" not Aaron Koblin

mission

"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."

- Alfred Hitchcock

"I only do drugs so I can drink more."
- Dennis Hopper

A "perfect game" in bowling is 12 strikes in a row, resulting in a score of 300.

Waitress: Tanqueray and Tab.
Ernie McCracken: Keep 'em comin', sweets, I got a long drive. Do me a favor, will you? Would you mind washing off that perfume before you come back to our table?

- 1996's "Kingpin"

movies that work and don't work

"You always aim for the bull's eye, but you don't always hit it."
- Clint Eastwood

movie prop supplier

www.westernstageprops.com

In a world where

From Megan McArdle's Why Goldman Always Wins:

Unless you’re deaf, or have been living in an ashram for the past four decades, you’ve heard the voice of Don LaFontaine, known in the trailer industry as “the voice of God.” LaFontaine’s gravelly baritone popularized the phrase In a world where … and seduced us into movie after movie, from Dr. Strangelove to The Simpsons Movie. When he died last year, at the age of 68, one obituary reported that at his peak, LaFontaine was making $30 million a year voicing trailers and commercials.