Rydell's Quotes

#1. Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses.

William Gibson

#2. 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.

Mark Rydell

#3. For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Joseph Campbell

#4. The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation

Anders Rydell

#5. 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.

Mark Rydell

#6. His face was an exploding zit-factory below a Brylcreem-loaded Bobby Rydell duck's ass.

Stephen King

#7. 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.

Mark Rydell

#8. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

William Julius Wilson

#9. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

#10. I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Blake Shelton

#12. What is it about you that demolishes my mind?

Judith McNaught

#13. 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.

Mark Rydell

#14. 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

Mark Rydell

#15. That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

Ed Helms

#16. Authenticity requires us to slow down. Fast times require us to slow down. To be effective, we need to slow down our pace of thought and action and focus on managing our attention. To be authentic leaders we need to act from intention and choice rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#17. I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Mark Rydell

#18. 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.

Mark Rydell

#19. Attitude and Gratitude...
always makes a different in your failure or success of everything you do in your life.

Timothy Pina

#20. I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

Mark Rydell

#21. I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

Donny Deutsch

#22. 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.

Mark Rydell

#23. Follow yer heart, because no matter where it takes ye, the journey is worth it - especially if it's love.

Rhys Ford

#24. 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.

Mark Rydell

#25. Brynne talks funny." "I know. I've been telling her that for a long time, but she doesn't listen." I shook my head sadly. "Still does it.

Raine Miller

#26. That the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life;

Atul Gawande

#27. 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!

Mark Rydell

#28. 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.

Mark Rydell

#29. I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope

Adrienne Rich

#30. 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.

Mark Rydell

#31. Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

Mark Rydell

#32. Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade

#33. We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

Eileen Collins

#34. 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.

Mark Rydell

#35. 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.

Mark Rydell

#36. 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.

Mark Rydell