D. W. Griffith Quotes

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

D. W. Griffith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948

Topics

TimePeopleMeLookYoungTeach

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Maxfield Parrish

LightExperienceSpaceColorPlan

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

John Lydon

DayIdeasStopRunOutRecords

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

John Sulston

BusinessScienceCompetitionPosition

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

LearningChildrenThinkEasyMeasure

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

Steven Gerrard

LoveGameCareerI CanNowSay

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

Steven Pinker

PlantsBehaviorWantDefendEatUs

The main thing that I learned in doing 'Moonlight' is that we get to shine light on a way of living, or a person, or whatever it may be that otherwise wouldn't have light or that otherwise wouldn't have any exposure, so people have no idea.

Trevante Rhodes

LightPeopleShineDoingLivingWay

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Michelle Malkin

FaithTimeMedicalPeopleBackNext

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Louis Farrakhan

PeoplePotentialWhiteHumans

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Jay Pharoah

CharacterYouSayWhateverStandards

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.

Douglas Coupland

FamilyLoveYouWriteFictionYour

I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.

Debra Granik

PeopleIdeasYouMeetingNeedSee

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