Mclibel Film Quotes & Sayings

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother. — Andie MacDowell

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl ... they got me instead. — Alex Borstein

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost. — Samuel Fuller

Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more. — Marvin Minsky

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. — Edward Moore

I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me. — Franny Armstrong

They had never returned. What became of the hens I don't know either. I should think the cause of progress got them, anyhow. However, through this glorious affair I got my appointment, before I had fairly begun to hope for it. I flew around like mad to get ready, and before forty-eight hours I was crossing the Channel to show myself to my employers, and sign the contract. In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of — Joseph Conrad

I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV broadcasters but because they had been sued by McDonald's in the past none of them would commission me so I ended up making it by credit cards and rich boyfriends (I'm joking - about the boyfriends). — Franny Armstrong

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay. — Frank Zappa

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. — Mark Twain