F. Gary Gray Quotes
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
Quotes to Explore
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
-
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
-
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
-
All men begin their learning with Homer.
-
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
-
The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
-
The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
-
Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
-
It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
-
If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
-
When you're rich you don't write checks.
-
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
-
The best live among us in disguise.
-
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
-
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
-
I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.
-
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
