Jeff Nichols Quotes
We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
Quotes to Explore
-
That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
-
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
-
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
-
I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
-
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
-
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
-
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
-
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
-
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
-
I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
-
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
-
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
-
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
-
On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
-
I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
-
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
-
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
-
What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?
-
It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.
-
You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.
-
Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.
-
We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
