Jeff Baena Quotes
If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
-
I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
-
I don't miss acting at all.
-
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
-
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
-
When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
-
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
-
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
-
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
-
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
-
To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
-
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
-
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
-
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
-
Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
-
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
-
If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
-
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
-
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-
My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.
-
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.
-
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
-
If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
