Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
Taylor Sheridan -
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
Mac DeMarco -
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Halle Berry -
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
J. B. Pritzker -
I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
Taylor Wilson -
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
Idina Menzel -
I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
Nate Parker -
Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
Hailee Steinfeld -
That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
Taron Egerton
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
Taylor Swift -
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff -
Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
Florence Henderson -
I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
Bailey Chase
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch -
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Karen DeCrow -
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
Oscar Wilde -
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
Barry Levinson -
My mom wasn't a movie star.
Jeff Bridges