Letdown Spotlight Quotes & Sayings

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. — Kenneth Lonergan

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise. — Misha Glouberman

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day. — Charles Dickens

I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read. — Quentin Tarantino

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation — Jeremy Bentham

The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull. — Judith Crist

President Kennedy's assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It's like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important. — Kathryn Stockett

Everyone has scars, Tenley.
If we're lucky, they're only on the outside". — Helena Hunting

Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis. — Barbara Holland

... They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that they are, if not in fact identical, actually related in the most profound and subtle sense. — Renata Adler

I'm grateful to Donald Trump's pro-life views, and I'm grateful that he's expressed those views so publicly and openly. — Mike Pence

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers ... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. — Michael Schudson

The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it ... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have. — Peter Lee

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.' — Alan King