Quotes About Legacy

It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

We should all know our family's story, all the more so if nobody tells it to us directly and we have to find it out for ourselves.

Since I descend just as directly from Catherine de' Medici as I do from Diane de Poitiers, I have no personal interest in damning the one while glorifying the other.

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

Never once was it said I was disappointed Peyton didn't win us more than one championship.

I've been in and around football all my life, but I've never been good at it, which I think my dad was very disappointed by.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look in my father's eyes went from disappointment to respect.

If you want to say I was a disaster of a player, then say it. But give me another disaster of a player who played almost 500 games across 14 years.

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.

It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.

I am proud to declare I am Sunil Duttsaab's discovery. He gave me my coveted break in 'Maan Ka Meet.'

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

I feel bad that I never discussed my mother's life and times as a career woman with her.

Whenever there is a discussion on Tollywood anywhere in the world, people talk about Prosenjit Chatterjee - what else can I ask for?

The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace.