Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

That free culture was carried to America; that was our birth — 1790. We established a regime that left creativity unregulated. Now it was unregulated because copyright law only covered "printing." Copyright law did not control derivative work. And copyright law granted this protection for the limited time of 14 years.

Professional sports play a very important part in American life and a very important part in the American imagination. Anybody who goes to the movies these days sees just what an important part of the American mind sports comprise. If they are so important and have such a hold on the minds and imaginations of children, then this ought to be a focal point of our efforts.

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

I've workshopped Medea where I have goddesses, and I'm naked onstage and painted gold, and talking in tongues, and the goddesses come and dress me, and Hecate arrives and fills me with the power to go kill the children so I can send them to the afterlife and do this for all women. They've never done a Medea like that. They're cheating themselves by not letting me do these roles.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

The jewel in the baby product crown is the stroller. And if in America you are what you drive, then in Parentland, you are what you push.

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.