Marti Noxon Quotes

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'

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• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• I've had every hair style imaginable.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Had

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hard

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Stars

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Help
  • Road
  • Red

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Rights
  • Flow

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• 'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Yourself

• Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

  

  Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Movie

• In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.

  

  Ian Bryce
  • Movie
  • Attention
  • Financial

• Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Fashion
  • Religion
  • Least

• Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Movie