Shirley Temple Quotes

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

I love the camaraderie that develops on film sets and ensemble casts. It's really special.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.

I want to continue working with my staff who are like family.

It's not just the actor who's responsible for a film becoming a hit. A whole lot of work and people are involved in it.

It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.

A working class hero is something to be.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.