“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.” JobsFilmWhiteTypeWalkingMarkSticksSilentI RealizedTiesPairsVillainMustacheSpatsNoblemenSilent FilmsWalking Sticks Author:Adolphe Menjou
“You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.” ThinkingKnowsDoeStoriesLightBeautifulFilmKnow HowMarkCamerasRhythmRememberedOur TimeMakersBeautiful Images Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter,' and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.” KnowsLongFilmLong TimeMy FriendsMarkObstaclesFighterHatsUnqualifiedHats Off Author:Holt McCallany
“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.” IfsMadeSelfFilmArtistInterestUnitedCompanyGreaterReturnHollywoodMarkProtectionAllowingDistributionSelf InterestAlliancesCrazinessDistributorsHartChaplin Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsSometimesFilmStuffWaterChurchCompanyComedyDirectorsMarkFloodInsurance CompaniesPomposity Author:Billy Connolly
“Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” MenWellsHas BeensBeautifulFilmFacesSpiritualStarsWatchesCuttingHe ManKingsMarkAthleteDenyPoisonHonourForbiddenMillionaireMonarchyEdenMonarchsPebblesArchesRumoursSpiritual NatureFilm StarsConstitutional MonarchyPolyphony Author:C. S. Lewis