Joel Silver Quotes

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

  Washed Out
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Singing

• Being spontaneous is a blessing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Being
  • Blessing
  • Spontaneous

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Family
  • You
  • Years

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Work
  • Same
  • Expression

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Energy
  • Morning
  • Practice

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• It's always sunny above the clouds. Always. Every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Earth
  • Clouds

• I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Catholic

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than 'Fair and Balanced.'

  

  Bill Keller
  • People
  • Earth

• A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

  

  David Hayter
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Vampire

• Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

  

  Joel Silver
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  • Movie