A Quote by John Updike

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

John Updike

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Laozi

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

Sam Abell

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Henry Ward Beecher

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Andy Behrman

I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point, or are more or less beautiful. But I've never made anything big to me, from my point of view. "Big" like John Ford or someone of that kind. I say John Ford because he is my favorite director.

Jesus Franco

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

Meryl Streep

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

John Harvey Kellogg

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

George Lucas

We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us.

Scott Derrickson

I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

Geoff Dyer

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Alex Winter

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

Guillermo del Toro

It's the world without sunlight, but I haven't seen sunlight in so long, I don't remember it.

Julian Assange

July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.