Quotes About Sow's Ear

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.