I`m fairly competent as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don`t have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with `It`s a masterpiece,` and then tell me what you think could be changed.
- Tim RobbinsOn Marie Antoinette (2006): "It`s kind of like a history of feelings rather than a history of facts. So don`t expect a masterpiece theatre, educational Marie Antoinette biopic".
- Kirsten Dunst(On why he would not add rap songs to the soundtrack to "Scarface") "They said it would help promotion, presenting the film in a different way, but Giorgio`s music was true to the period, I argued -- and no one changes the scores on movies by Marty Scorsese, John Ford, David Lean. If this is the `masterpiece` you say, leave it alone. I fought them tooth and nail and was the odd man out, not an unusual place for me. I have final cut, so that stopped them dead."
- Brian De Palma(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though."
- Richard BurtonMy career went into the hole after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). People might have seen what they saw on screen and subconsciously, people in the business might have taken what they saw literally. I think people thought, `He got fat. He got weird. His mumbling increased tenfold.` I was trying to do an interpretation of a masterpiece of a book, and that`s what the character was - an animal!
- Benicio Del ToroMost directors have one masterpiece by which they are known, or possibly two. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine. - on Akira Kurosawa
- Francis Ford Coppola(On Elizabeth Taylor): "At thirty-four she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the masterpiece: She has an insipid double chin, her legs are too short and she has a slight potbelly. She has a wonderful bosom, though."
- Richard BurtonTrees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it`s a masterpiece.
- Steve BuscemiI`m fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don`t have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with `It`s a masterpiece,` and then tell me what you think could be changed.
- Tim RobbinsWith a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can`t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this.
- Akira KurosawaOf all the arts in which the wise excel, nature`s chief masterpiece is writing well.
- André BretonOf all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature`s chief masterpiece is writing well.
- André BretonI have loved performing since I was big enough to wrestle my little brothers and sisters into sitting long enough for me to sing them my latest musical masterpiece. I just hope ya`ll will come out and see this little girl from the hills of Tennessee walk out there on that big ole stage and make her dreams come true, don`t make me wrestle you too `cause I will if I have to!
- Dolly PartonAh yes, I remember well what it was like to be a true collector, that soft explosion in the heart, that thundering inner "Yes!" when you see something you must have or die. For over 30 years I made periodic visits to Renoir`s "Luncheon of the Boating Party" in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.
- Edward G. RobinsonI always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don`t know, read something or write my masterpiece.
- Elizabeth WurtzelBy a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G.K. ChestertonWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- Adam CarrollWinners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
- Alan StisselIt is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
- Alastair NelsonSome people say it`s late, but I always say when God paints his masterpiece, it`ll be done at the right time and it will come. We need cold nights, we need some frost to bring it on.
- Ann ThompsonThe loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.
- Barbara PorchConfusion now hath made his masterpiece!
- William ShakespeareArt begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre GideAll of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
- Bernard BerensonThe true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
- Cyril ConnollyArt begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
- Andre Gide