Bill Paxton Quotes
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
Quotes to Explore
-
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
-
I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
-
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
-
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
-
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
-
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
-
In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
-
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
-
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
-
I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
-
To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
-
Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.
-
Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
-
I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
-
I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
-
What's important to me is people just being people.
-
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
-
I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.
-
Valuations are always much-debated. I try to center on what is the value to us. Is it solving a problems for us? If it is, we find a way to proceed. If the valuation has been overhyped on something and it doesn't make sense, we won't. It's very simple for me. I tend not to worry too much about the valuation. It's really what the value is to us.
-
I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
-
I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
-
I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.
-
I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.
-
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
