All Quotes

As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.
‐‐ Kether Donohue

As a fiction writer, all I need is a laptop, and when I'm not teaching, I travel as much as I can, applying for every research grant and overseas gig I hear of, then trying to extend those trips as far as the stipends will go. I love to travel alone.
‐‐ Molly Antopol

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.
‐‐ Stewart O'Nan

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.
‐‐ Gail Carriger

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
‐‐ Tommy Wiseau

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
‐‐ George Hickenlooper

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.
‐‐ John Lasseter

As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn't have to do posters. I wish didn't have to give anything away. I wish people could just come in the movie blind. But as an audience member, I respect that you have to tell an audience that this is worth your time.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts, my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician, you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.
‐‐ Ryan Coogler

As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.
‐‐ James Wan

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
‐‐ George A. Romero

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'
‐‐ Peter Jackson

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
‐‐ Jan Schakowsky

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
‐‐ Adam Brown

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
‐‐ Arthur Henderson

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

As a first-time director, you act a lot like a teenager. I made decisions because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
‐‐ Allen Boyd

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
‐‐ Christian Kane

As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.
‐‐ Armie Hammer

As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom - both domestic and international - as well as matters of the culture and the American family.
‐‐ Frank Wolf

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
‐‐ Joe Namath

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
‐‐ Matthew Stafford

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
‐‐ Ryan Giggs

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.
‐‐ David Beckham

As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.
‐‐ David Sedaris

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.
‐‐ Rusty Schweickart