Top 33 Campisi Quotes
#1. Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.
Gabriel Campisi
#2. In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.
Gabriel Campisi
#3. Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.
Dolph Lundgren
#4. Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.
Gabriel Campisi
#5. Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.
Gabriel Campisi
#6. Dreams do come true. But it will involve a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of studying.
Gabriel Campisi
#7. I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.
Gabriel Campisi
#8. More people are killed by errant cabdrivers in New York City every year than are killed by NYPD cops - and
Charles Campisi
#9. Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.
Gabriel Campisi
#10. I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.
Gabriel Campisi
#11. If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.
Wesley Morris
#12. My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
Damian Marley
#13. Every film is a new adventure, and I always meet new cast and crew members that blow my mind.
Gabriel Campisi
#14. There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.
Lemony Snicket
#15. The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.
Gabriel Campisi
#16. I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.
Gabriel Campisi
#18. You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
Gabriel Campisi
#19. I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.
Barack Obama
#20. It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.
Lauren Oliver
#21. Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.
Gabriel Campisi
#22. When looking at the green, divide it into quadrants. Observe which quadrant the flag is located. In your mind, shrink the green and direct your focus to the quadrant with the flag.
Darrin Gee
#23. I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
David Copperfield
#24. The ability to kill someone is basically a mental stance, and not a question of physical means; a serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka.
Neal Stephenson
#25. What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?
Sorin Cerin
#26. Today the challenge is not visuals, but to be able to tell a riveting emotional story, something that can reach deep down inside the audience's heart and twist it like a toy to make them laugh, cry or jump out of their seats to root for the hero.
Gabriel Campisi
#27. My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.
Gabriel Campisi
#28. Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.
Lauren Dane
#29. In the end ... he would choose Campisi.
In the end ... she would choose Abandonato.
In the end ... there would be bloodshed.
Rachel Van Dyken
#30. I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
Gabriel Campisi
#31. Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend who is still liable to surprise us.
N. T. Wright
#32. There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality
Peter Tosh
#33. There is truly no other business in the world like making movies. It's unique, it's extremely demanding and difficult, but it's also the most rewarding.
Gabriel Campisi
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