Quotes About Impact

Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.

I judge my film choices based on the director, and then I see how much the story has affected me when I read it or when I hear it in the narration. Then comes how important my role is in it, but primarily director, script, and then role.

I love the 'Black Album' because I think it was the beginning of something, primarily. I'd met Metallica, and I'd heard Metallica before that, but when I heard the 'Black Album,' I actually had a response rather like I did with 'Sgt. Pepper.'

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

I think every character is important in every film - be it small, primary, or lead - because they are adding something to the story, taking it forward.

A band which plays songs such as 'Death Knell' or 'Prime Mover' can't just stand on the stage with a shirt and jeans-jacket. It must be more awesome than that.

Brazilian boys as young as 14 and 15 are now based in Europe. They spend their best years in Europe and come back to Brazil when they are past their prime. This has destroyed local clubs and championships.

Michael Gove was one of the worst things to ever happen to the education system in this country. David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had.

Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

I expect every prime minister to have his own imprint.

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

I just think about little me - what it would have meant to me to see a chubby girl in movies and a big girl get the guy and be the princess, be the hero. I think that would've really changed a lot for me.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.

When your principal artists deliver convincing performances, the film's quality is elevated.

There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.