All Quotes

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.
‐‐ Richard Ayoade

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
‐‐ Paul Feig

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
‐‐ Gene Wilder

A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
‐‐ Billy Eichner

A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication - which are important and needed - but then they don't train their people.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
‐‐ Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.
‐‐ Maureen Chiquet

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
‐‐ Anderson Cooper

A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
‐‐ Zac Brown

A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.
‐‐ Heston Blumenthal

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
‐‐ Sundar Pichai

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.
‐‐ Peter Temple

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly more about his personal history in the tradition of the unreliable narrator. It makes it more challenging to write.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them.
‐‐ Sean Penn

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
‐‐ Howard Graham Buffett

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
‐‐ Brooke Burke

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.
‐‐ Jefferson Han

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.
‐‐ Ivan Glasenberg

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.
‐‐ Gwen Ifill

A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
‐‐ John Varvatos

A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.
‐‐ Alexander Wang

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
‐‐ Elsa Peretti

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
‐‐ Omar Epps

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
‐‐ John Milius

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
‐‐ Michael Bay

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.
‐‐ Annette Bening

A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.
‐‐ Arthur Penn

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents. But a lot of people would be surprised to know that writers are pretty flexible when it comes to their work.
‐‐ Glenn Ficarra

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
‐‐ Alan Parker

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.
‐‐ Chris Tucker

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
‐‐ Jacki Weaver

A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
‐‐ Diplo

A lot of DJs who started the same time as me, they are not to be seen anymore. And I get so much love and respect from the young DJs, and some of them look up to me or ask me for advice. I am almost like the mentor.
‐‐ Tiesto

A lot of dramas get a bad name commercially because they are unremittingly bleak.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.
‐‐ Michael Ovitz

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
‐‐ Tre Cool

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
‐‐ Zedd

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.
‐‐ Terrell Owens

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.
‐‐ Eric Ries