Michael Cunningham Quotes

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

Michael Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 6, 1952

Topics

MyselfBookKnowMatterOutHead

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

Joel Gretsch

FunYouBadPlayGoWant

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

John Hawkes

ChooseTelevisionKindBe Careful

I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.

John Fusco

HistoryFoolMeStoryInformation

If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, can't it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?

Jeff Nichols

CarMeSongDriveRoadSpeak

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

Tom Hardy

LoveHatePeoplePublicityI Love

I have to say... Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

Ron Eldard

SayMayUnderratedActressMost

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.

Mickey Rourke

LongFameActorBecomeHardFine

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LawShameMayRestrainDoes

It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece of storytelling that also happened to explode the myth of American affluence.

Debra Granik

PeopleAmericanPoorStorytelling

It's so important, people laughing.

Chevy Chase

PeopleImportantLaughing

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Clarence Darrow

BestFriendsSameDirtHelpfulSide

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

Sebastian Coe

GreatYouKnowSometimesHandUp

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