James Mangold Quotes

#1. The two most exciting things for me to get to work on 'The Wolverine' was getting to work with James Mangold, the director who directed '3:10 to Yuma' and 'Walk the Line' as well as getting to work with Hugh Jackman.

Will Yun Lee

#2. What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

James Mangold

#3. Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Merle Haggard

#4. I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

#5. Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food - all kinds - drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

James Mangold

#7. My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

James Mangold

#8. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

James Mangold

#9. The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

James Mangold

#10. Death is pretty final./I'm collecting vinyl./I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world/'cause if heaven does exists/with a kickin' playlist/I don't wanna miss it at the end of the world

Michael Stipe

#11. Develop your character; there is no need to be concerned about reputation.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

James Mangold

#13. I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

James Mangold

#14. The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

James Mangold

#15. If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

James Mangold

#16. Besides, your imagination often plays tricks on you in moments of danger.

Anne Frank

#17. Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

James Mangold

#18. I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

Ben Shahn

#19. There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

James Mangold

#20. Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

James Mangold

#21. A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

James Mangold

#22. We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

James Mangold

#23. Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

W. H. Auden

#24. Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

Tim LaHaye

#25. Just agree, you stubborn child." "Secondboy!" Drizzt corrected, his voice again a growl, and his arms defiantly back over his chest.

R.A. Salvatore

#26. We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

James Mangold

#27. I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

James Mangold

#28. The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

James Mangold

#29. Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

James Mangold

#30. I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

James Mangold

#31. My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

Duke Of Wellington

#32. Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

James Mangold

#33. No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.

R. Scott Bakker

#34. You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

James Mangold

#35. Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

Harold Bloom