Irvin Kershner Quotes

#1. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.

Donald Faison

#2. Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

Irvin Kershner

#3. I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

Irvin Kershner

#4. There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Irvin Kershner

#5. Black people cannot look to government to solve their problems.

Shawn Amos

#6. I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.

Irvin Kershner

#7. It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

Irvin Kershner

#8. Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

Gil Scott-Heron

#9. If you want to change your life, then first of all you will have to change decoding of your mind (the way you see, the way you hear, the way you think).

Sunil Maurya

#10. In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

Irvin Kershner

#11. I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Irvin Kershner

#12. I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Irvin Kershner

#13. Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Robin S. Sharma

#14. We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

Daniel Kahneman

#15. After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

Irvin Kershner

#16. The dream came again - three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

Jettie Necole

#17. I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#18. Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Irvin Kershner

#19. Inflation is taxation without representation.

Milton Friedman

#20. Let our virtuous deeds, keep us afloat as a well maintained ship and safely, cross this ocean of worldly life.

Rajen Jani

#21. I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

Kevin Richardson