Robert Wise famous quotes

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
-- Robert Wise

#Perseverance #Passion #Three

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.
-- Robert Wise

#Important #Needs #Actors

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
-- Robert Wise

#Reality #Thinking #Important

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.
-- Robert Wise

#Apples #Decision #Way

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
-- Robert Wise

#Pebbles #Film #Sand

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
-- Robert Wise

#Stars #Character #Thinking

A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes."
-- Robert Wise

#Reflection #Space #Feelings

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
-- Robert Wise

#Successful #Trying #Looks

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.

I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.