Kershner Quotes & Sayings

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smite thee. — William Kershner

It is good practice to provide width and height measurements for every object element. — Anonymous

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself. — Irvin Kershner

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. — George Carlin

For me, opposition is just another opposition. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking. — Irvin Kershner

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please. — Lysa TerKeurst

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive. — George Allen, Sr.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face. — Irvin Kershner

He'd built his life on wanting the impossible - true power, recognition, a future - and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . . — Roshani Chokshi

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality. — Irvin Kershner

The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones. — Donald Faison

I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about. — Irvin Kershner

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me. — Irvin Kershner

We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned! — Irvin Kershner

I never thought I would be left behind."
He chuckled. "Eloise Bridgerton, I don't think anyone wouldever make the mistake of leaving you
behind. — Julia Quinn

Ascension joy - inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy. — Irvin Kershner

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God. — Billy Graham

The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is ... you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable. — Irvin Kershner

The play is not in the words, it's in you! — Stella Adler

One day, J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil called Read to tell him that he had $136,000 that he had to get rid of, for some arcane tax reason, in the next twenty-four hours-and would Read, along with Howard Kershner of Christian Economics (a more right-wing religious education group Pew also supported) figure out among themselves what they could best do with it? Thanks. And they did. — Brian Doherty

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable. — Irvin Kershner

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make. — Irvin Kershner

Was it so wrong to relish the feeling anyway? To enjoy the way it lingered, leaving her with a wistful awareness, a pleasant unease, as if she had forgotten to do something? Yes, it probably was wrong. But she did not wish it away. — Julie Klassen

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old. — Irvin Kershner

Why do the lives of writers seem so ... train-wrecky? — Chuck Palahniuk