Paul Dirac Quote

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Oliver Stone

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

John Archibald Wheeler

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

Alberto Giacometti

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Marlon Brando

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Andre Malraux

• Suffering

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

Gloria Estefan

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Sigourney Weaver

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

George Lucas

• Beginning

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Kevin Costner

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

• Nature
• Reality
• Listening

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

• Mystery

I planned to become a painter, so I studied painting. But at a certain point I realized I could not express some things through pictures alone.

Akira Kurosawa

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

Isabelle Huppert

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Roger Penrose

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

Pieter Zeeman