All Quotes

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.
‐‐ Amy Ray

When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
‐‐ Baltasar Kormakur

When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.
‐‐ Pete Postlethwaite

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.
‐‐ John Fogerty

When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.
‐‐ Frank Marshall

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.
‐‐ John Woo

When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now.
‐‐ Chad Hugo

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
‐‐ Aida Turturro

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.
‐‐ Trisha Yearwood

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
‐‐ Kathryn Bigelow

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.
‐‐ Leos Carax

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

When I made my way across childhood to the tinny AM radio, it was dark. Lights out. I listened intently. More intently than I ever had before. Something was speaking to my unformed-ness like a long lost friend. Something that I had never met but forgotten nonetheless. I was 'realizing' that music was 'different' from other things in life.
‐‐ Jane Siberry

When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.
‐‐ Jonathan Mostow

When I made the decision to really get serious about my writing, I set myself a goal of 1,000 words a day for seven days. If I got to 7,000 words before Monday I could take a day off, but I had to get there. I had to do that every week.
‐‐ Peter V. Brett

When I made the decision to stop working regionally and just focus on being in New York, part of the reason that instigated that choice was a desire to work on new plays and know what it was to originate a part.
‐‐ Jayne Houdyshell

When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?
‐‐ Lisa Jackson

When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life, and that was in fourth grade. We traveled to California for vacation and stayed with some friends of my parents. It was culture shock, and it was different.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.
‐‐ Tyson Chandler

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
‐‐ Dick Bruna

When I make a change, like when I found out I had high cholesterol, I just changed my lifestyle.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

When I make a commitment I stick to it.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
‐‐ Jackie Chan

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
‐‐ Michael Moore

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
‐‐ Norman Jewison

When I make a film, the mixing process is very long, and you hear and watch the material in every form, so that totally shreds your ability to perceive it. So after the mixing, there's no way I can have the emotions or the reactions to my films in the same way.
‐‐ Pedro Almodovar

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
‐‐ Zack Snyder

When I make a mistake once, it's usually not going to happen again.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

When I make a picture, I make love.
‐‐ Alfred Stieglitz

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.
‐‐ Diane Mott Davidson

When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.
‐‐ Kygo

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.
‐‐ Rick Perry

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.
‐‐ Shepard Smith

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
‐‐ Jim Hodges

When I make decisions, I'm not thinking about my parents. I'm thinking about my children.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.
‐‐ Tom Graves

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
‐‐ Lesley Manville

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.
‐‐ Charlie Adam

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
‐‐ King Krule

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
‐‐ Lilly Singh