Top 1200 Universal Studios Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in the '90s becoming part of a system where financiers and movie stars could change the material. I came along just before all that happened.

People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and there's no doubt in my mind why filmmakers and screenwriters and actors are ending up at a place like HBO. They do it better than anybody.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

The studios are nervous on every movie. It never ends, because Marty's movies are so unusual. He doesn't repeat himself, so they don't know what to expect. We have to fight hard to keep them from being ruined. Film students can't believe that when I tell them, because they think, 'Well, it's Martin Scorsese.'

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

Thanks to 'It,' you're going to see the studios take a lot more chances on a very specific vision. An R-rated horror film about children being eaten by a monster that lives in a sewer is not normally something that a studio would throw their weight behind. But we've seen the success of it, which props everyone up.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Audiences like to be made to feel that there is a world where things go right: where big emotions can happen and yet feel safe. This is why there is a constant tension in Hollywood between studios who want happy endings and writers who want to explore the human condition. There is a time and a place for both!

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.

What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams.

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.

You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.

If you look at Disney's slate compared to the other Hollywood studios, it stands out because of big titles and strong franchise films which also extend beyond cinemas, to merchandising or theme parks given the legacy of the four brands - Disney, Pixar, Marvel and now Lucasfilm.

I have felt that there's a lot of receptiveness to female stories now. I think some of it has a little bit - a lot of it is economically driven and driven by, just, kind of studios wanting to check that box because now they know they have a woman problem that they need to solve.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

I signed with Columbia for two reasons. One reason I saw two of Frank Capra s pictures in Paris, and I want to work with him. Then at Columbia, in Harry Cohn, there is only one judge to please. I could not face the juries of fourteen that I have heard about at so many large studios.

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Music is a universal language and really an interesting way for a brand to expand their consumer horizon.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

There are product placements. I worked with a lot of companies like Universal and Wonderful Pistachios.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.