Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.
I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.
