David Slade Quotes

On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes.

David Slade

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Live
  • Hollywood
  • Broadway

• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Want
  • Clever

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Myself

• 'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Stars
  • Awesome
  • Dancing

• The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Islamic

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.

  

  Kaskade
  • Live
  • Like
  • Born

• We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Time
  • Done
  • Bad

• Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Moments
  • Sad

• I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Thinking
  • Done

• On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes.

  

  David Slade
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done