Roots The Movie Quotes & Sayings

The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance — Joss Whedon

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift. — Ruth Westheimer

Nobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of. — Nina Jacobson

I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me. — Keke Palmer

You will need to create a discipline where head and heart can both
be involved in the decisions that you make. Taking the emotion out of something you feel very passionate about is far from easy. But easy don't build great. — David Hieatt

...I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative. — David Byrne

I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.' — Jay Leno

The only problem I have with American money is that it's all kind of the same color, so I'm always having to look. Whereas with Australian money, you have purple, blue, yellow ... We keep it nice and simple. — Emily Browning

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain. — Mark Wahlberg

There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat. — Omar Epps

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots. — Wanda Sykes

As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right. — Richard Branson

But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids. — Anne Frasier