Gene Siskel Quote

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

Cornelia Funke

• Books

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?

Liam Neeson

• Morality

I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.

Kate Hudson

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Charlize Theron

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

Kevin Costner

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

• People

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Anatole France

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

Kate Hudson

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Buddha

• Inspirational
• Life

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

Roman Polanski

• Man
• People

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Juliette Binoche

• Change

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

When you work with a director like this you don't have a real challenge because he makes the work very easy. He knows what he wants as a director.

Sophie Marceau

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Tony Robbins

• People

I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

Sandra Bullock

• People

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

Quentin Tarantino

• Faith

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Leonardo DiCaprio