In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it! ’ To which I reply ‘Well, why? It’s already a book.
It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and...
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Deb Caletti
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
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Terry Pratchett
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Nicole Krauss
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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James Dean
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
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Alfred Hitchcock
More Quotes By Orson Scott Card
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way...
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
