Burt Lancaster Quotes

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

It's wonderful to be part of a film that really reaches an audience's mind and an audience's heart.

No one is bigger than cinema.

Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

Movies help the sales of the comics.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.

We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.