It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'
Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a smart, sophisticated, civilized alternative to commercial TV - not a cheap imitation of it.
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Eric Draven: I have something to give you. I don't want it anymore. Thirty hours of pain all at once, all for you.
Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"
Major John Reisman: You only hit him once? Samson Posey: I didn't mean to kill him!
Jack Lucas: Did you lose your mind all at once, or was it a slow, gradual process?
[to God] Tevye: I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else?
Commodus: Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.
Mickey: I'm afraid once they're done singing they're gonna take hostages!
Wong Shun Leung: Master, you really can fight ten men at once.
"Hatchet" Harry: Don't go spending it all at once, boy.
Tristan: Because you love her, I will forgive that, ONCE! Say that again, and you are no longer my brother.
Berlin: There once was a girl named Berlin. Who wanted it now and again. Not "now and again". But Now! And again and again and again.
Waldo Lydecker: Have you ever been in love? Mark McPherson: A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta me.
