Norman Jewison Quotes

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

A good movie humanizes people.

Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.