George Gittoes Quotes & Sayings

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture. — Steve Antin

It's only in books--actual printed books--that you can easily start and stop your reading, that you can preread and reread, and, these days, as the book itself suffers from a cluster of plagues, it seems only right to pause and assert that the books that ought to be rescued these days are not the books that require a "spoiler alert"--such books are already spoiled--but books that aren't spoiled even if you know what's going to happen, even if you peek at the end, even if you're reading them for a second, or fifth, or dozenth time. — J.C. Hallman

Suggested they try the Glatt, an enormous American-style mall in Wallisellen, one town over from Dietlikon. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

I don't get superheroes," she says,
"if you could see through everything
you'd see nothing at all. — Paul Madonna

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that. — Penn Jillette

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored. — El-P

The Church has for a long time looked like a Church of baroque princes. It is now returning to the spirit of simplicity which marked its origins-when the "servant of God" chose to be a carpenter's son on earth and chose fishermen as his first messengers.
If in the past (or even the present) the Church seemed too closely identified with the ruling classes, the term "Church of the poor" unquestionably expresses a project of fundamental importance, a willingness to break free of such chains. It also means that in the footsteps of Christ the Church is sent especially to the forgotten and the outcasts. — Pope Benedict XVI

What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth ... — John Geddes

I would advise young aspiring theater artists to do as many shows as possible. It doesn't matter if it's in the basement of a church, in school, or in community theater. Do them wherever you can; big parts or small, it doesn't matter. — Rob McClure

Or: "The ideal student values knowledge for its own sake, as well as for its instrumental uses. He or she hopes to make a contribution to society at large. — Carol S. Dweck