W Quotes
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“When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!”
“When I make a commitment I stick to it.”
“When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop and then when I see something interested then I shoot. I think that I have become very sensitive to these things.”
“When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.”
“When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.”
“When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'”
“When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.”
“When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.”
“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.”
“When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.”
“When I make a fool out of myself or when I don't take myself seriously, I'm in a comfortable spot where I don't need to be reasonable. There's no reason to be reasonable. This is what I want to do and where I have full control. I determine what I want to do.”
“When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.”
“When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.”
“When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.”
“When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!”
“When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.”
“When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.”
“When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.”
“When I make a movie, I just make the movie. I don't think about the success of it. If it becomes successful, that's an amazing treat. If it doesn't, you had a great time making it and you learned from it, and then you make a new thing.”
“When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.”
“When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.”
“When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.”
“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”
Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer
“When I make a picture, I make love.”
Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer
“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”
“When I make a pretty good hook (...) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.”
“When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.”
“When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.”
“When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.”
“When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.”
“When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.”
“When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.”
“When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.”
“When I make duck soup, I add an extra pinch of Simply Red’s hit song “Holding Back The Years.” It makes a better emulsifier than peeled carrots.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.”
“When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's about getting things done, getting them right, and trying to channel the energies and get the best of whatever you have on your set. It's only once the film is finished that it's like, "Okay, let's try to figure out what happened." Try to figure out exactly what I did.”
“When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.”
“When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.”
“When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.”
“When I Make It Shine" -- Tori Vega”
“When I make love to you,’ he said in a low whisper right by my ear, ‘I want to be able to give you one hundred percent of my attention. Right now, with the Unit on our tail, I’m going to be giving you less than fifty percent. I’ve got one eye on the door and one on you, not to mention a gun under the pillow. Not exactly the accessory I imagined.”
Source: The Lila Collection
“When I make love to you, Lanie, I want you to feel every inch of me buried deep inside of you, loving you, worshiping your body...”
Source: Just A Step Away
“When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative way. But I primarily work by myself, that's my process. When I'm acting, I'm there to serve the director and the character. I'm here to give you what you need. Communicate that to me and I will do what I need to do to get that. So that's what it's about.”
“When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.”
“When I make music, it takes me two hours to get into the flow. To me it's like tapping into some kind of subconscious frequency: I just have to turn everything else off, open up part of myself, expose my fears and try to work through it in the music that I'm making.”
“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”
“When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.”
“When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.”
“When I make records I have full control of everything and I know how it sounds before it comes out, with films it's outta my hands.”