It is only presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and background of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights. - Oscar Micheaux

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. - Martin Scorsese

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination, anything that is as far away as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. - George Lucas

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. - Spike Lee

That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears. - Ridley Scott

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it. Then you keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it. - Langston Hughes

Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance. - Shonda Rhimes

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. - Larry David

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa

I learned from Roger Rabbit that if you make people laugh they'll do anything for you, which is almost true. - Tiffany Haddish

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days. - Martin Scorsese

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. - Akira Kurosawa

We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart. - Tupac Shakur

I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything. - Nipsey Hussle

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie. - Eddie Murphy

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie. - Eddie Murphy

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny. - Larry David

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. - Alfred Hitchcock

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously. It's being taken too seriously. - Billy Wilder

I try to make films, not movies. I've never like the expression 'movie'. But it sounds elitist to say that. - Ridley Scott

Success to me is just being able to do what you love to do and support yourself all through. - Nipsey Hussle

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie? - Billy Wilder

Instead of trying to build a brick wall, lay a brick every day. Eventually you'll look up and you'll have a brick wall. - Nipsey Hussle

I am in a constant stage of development. - Ridley Scott

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. - Spike Lee

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well received, it's a surprise to me. - Larry David

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? - George Lucas

Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment. - Oscar Micheaux

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done. - Shonda Rhimes

You can't do it unless you can imagine it. - George Lucas

I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something. - Martin Scorsese

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. - Akira Kurosawa