M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Making a Different Choice Gives You the Opportunity to Live a Different Life.”
“Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.”
“Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.”
“Making a dream into reality begins with what you have, not with what you are waiting on.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Making a fantastical world real is a bit of a challenge, for sure. When you're on set and you have a green screen you're working with where you'll pretend there's a giant lizard chasing you when there's nothing there. Being shown the images of what the creatures were going to look like and then having to react to them realistically without feeling like you're a crazy person. You kind of have to go for it. In order to sell it to the audience, you can't really hold back.”
“Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.”
“Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.”
“Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.”
“Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.”
“Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.”
“Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.”
“Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world. You're just trying to make a love letter, a gift.”
“Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.”
“Making a film is like raising a child. You have to be there every step of the way, guide it, provide for it, and finally let it go into the real world and hope you have done a good job. If you don't absolutely love your film then you will loss interest in it and the movie will suffer.”
“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”
“Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.”
“Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?”
Source: Hitchcock
“Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.”
“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.”
“Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.”
“Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.”
“Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.”
“Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.”
“Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.”
“Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing”
“Making a film, you do need stamina, whether you're doing fight scenes or not. It's important to keep fit. I'm not talking about having perfect abs and stuff, but you've got to be on top of your game, especially if you're playing the lead. You have to look after yourself.”
“Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.”
“Making a Fist
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.
"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."
Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.”
Source: Words under the words: selected poems
“Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.”
“Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.”
“Making a genuine connection with another person does help to counteract all this [loneliness]. And I'm not talking about making Instagram or Facebook "friends" here, but rather one-on-one, face-to-face, IRL relationships. These are what open us to the actual lives of others, not just the filtered and curated existences we're likely to encounter online. In a true friendship, you remove your filters.”
Source: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
“Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.”
“Making a great first impression is not an accident, and with a little planning, experimentation, and application, you can transform your style, substance, and impact.”
Source: The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact
“Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that.”
“Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'”
“Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things.”
“Making a home, she realized immediately, was much more than having the dust cleared and the lawn trimmed. For years—decades, even—she and her brothers had taken for granted the way their mother tucked extra blankets around them on nights that turned especially cold or how their father set down his tools and bent over to look them in the eyes when they spoke. Or better yet, handed them a tool and let them work alongside him. As children, they had been oblivious to all their parents did—perfectly, contentedly oblivious.
But she wasn’t anymore. She felt it all. Like a forehead kiss when thought to be sleeping, the love was there whether noticed or not. All give, no take. However, the thing about abundant love is that it needs somewhere to go.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“Making a human always takes the same three ingredients— an egg cell, a sperm cell, and a uterus. But just how the ingredients come together is a fascinating tale.”
“Making a human always takes the same three ingredients—an egg cell, a sperm cell, and a uterus. But just how the ingredients come together is a fascinating tale. Sometimes the ingredients that created us come from the same people who are raising us. Other times, we don’t share genetics with the people responsible for our care, such as when we are raised by stepparents, adoptive parents, or foster parents. This is also often true when donors and surrogates are involved.”
“Making a human always takes the same three ingredients—an egg cell, a sperm cell, and a uterus. But just how the ingredients come together is a fascinating tale. With discoveries in science and medicine, we have insemination and IVF, along with sex, to bring babies into the world. Sometimes the ingredients that created us come from the same people who are raising us. Other times, we don’t share genetics with the people responsible for our care, such as when we are raised by stepparents, adoptive parents, or foster parents. This is also often true when donors and surrogates are involved”
Source: Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be
“Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.”
“Making a job interesting and efficient is the purpose of Job Design.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.”
Source: Moominpappa at Sea
“Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.”
“Making a lie complicated... doesn't sound true.
(BackStrom Season 1 episode 7)”
“Making a list of all the important work that I will ignore today.”
“Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".”
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
“Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.”
Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.”
“Making a living is nothing if you're not also making a life.”
Source: The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions