Rydell Quotes

#1. It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. - Author: Mark Rydell

#2. You have made a mistake, well good, good this shows that you have to learn a lesson... I have also made a mistake, she also has made a mistake, all have made mistake, that's life. That's how everything works! - Author: Deyth Banger

#3. Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful. - Author: Mark Rydell

#4. His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass. - Author: Stephen King

#5. Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different. - Author: Mark Rydell

#6. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. - Author: Mark Rydell

#7. Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture? - Author: Philip Yancey

#8. It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand. - Author: Mark Rydell

#9. And for once, she was happy. Very. - Author: Caragh M. O'Brien

#10. The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation - Author: Anders Rydell

#11. Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses. - Author: William Gibson

#12. The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt - Author: Mark Rydell

#13. Tricking?" Ravel said. "I wouldn't call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating. - Author: Derek Landy

#14. I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition. - Author: Mark Rydell

#15. Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. - Author: Tom Stoppard

#16. You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence. - Author: Ray Stevenson

#17. It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at. - Author: Mark Rydell

#18. I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died... - Author: Lucinda Riley

#19. Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine. - Author: Matsuo Basho

#20. Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege. - Author: Mark Rydell

#21. Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is the reason he left home in the first place, that the home is not his anymore, and that the crisis is him. - Author: Brock Clarke

#22. He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture. - Author: Mark Rydell

#23. It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! - Author: Mark Rydell

#24. No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled. - Author: Mark Rydell

#25. I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack. - Author: Mark Rydell

#26. It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses. - Author: Mark Rydell

#27. In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now. - Author: Bill Gates

#28. Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors. - Author: Mark Rydell

#29. It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. - Author: Mark Rydell

#30. The secret to accomplishing anything while drunk is to accept - Author: Johnny Shaw

#31. There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized. - Author: Mark Rydell

#32. He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him. - Author: Mark Rydell

#33. I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket!
But I got a little tired of the redundancy. - Author: Natasha Tsakos

#34. The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work ... Those read great works,on the other hand will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of there life. - Author: C.S. Lewis