Making Quotes

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.