Matthew Modine Quotes

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Matthew Modine

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• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • You
  • Never
  • Process

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Work
  • Perfect

• I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Job
  • Try
  • Field

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Light
  • Humour
  • Hearted

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Game
  • Day

• I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Done
  • Interesting

• The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Possible
  • Uncertainty

• Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Apple

• A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Small

• I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Walking

• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Productivity

• Advertising is a wonderful lubricant for business, if it's used properly.

  

  John Cullum
  • Business

• No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between music and literature and photography, sure, but it really comes down to what a person does.

  

  Bill Henson
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Photography

• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Work
  • High

• I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Culture
  • I Think
  • Nostalgic

• For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

  

  Matthew Modine
  • Photography