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Alexander Mackendrick Quotes

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.

Alexander Mackendrick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1912 - December 22, 1993

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I Am Curious American Blood Fact Am

We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe.

Maximilian Schell

Never Forget Forget Hollywood Never

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Looking Help Feelings Enemy Without

Over at Barb Bowman, she's arguing that we should turn off Facebook's tracking of ads. I totally disagree; those trackers make newsfeed filtering work better and potentially could help bring me better ads, which improves my life.

Life Work Me Better My Life Help

In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.

John T. Chambers

Business Community Courage Government

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Balance You Ready Never Ask Made

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

Michael Patrick Jann

Life Light Day Me Night Choose

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

Average Geek Utterly Total

'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.

Work Journey Beautiful Day Long

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Time Want Film Favorite Movie

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

Art New Colorful Dining New Orleans

Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them.

School High School Play Band High

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Writing Wish Drawing Sometimes More

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