David Puttnam Quotes

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

David Puttnam

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• Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Interesting
  • Dog
  • Opinions

• I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Good
  • Alone

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • May
  • Look
  • Yoga

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Blue

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Family
  • Think
  • Guy

• But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Wish
  • Now
  • I Wish

• Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Great
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Acting

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Criticism
  • Creation
  • Motto

• Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Men
  • Words
  • Play

• Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Help
  • Wonder
  • Illusion

• Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Guy
  • Sun

• Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People

• Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

  

  Caio Terra
  • Good
  • Work
  • Skills

• My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Work
  • My Life

• At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Comedy

• Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Walking
  • Summer
  • Green

• I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • God
  • Book
  • Hope

• Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

  

  David Puttnam