John McTiernan Quotes

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

John McTiernan

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Student
  • Bloom

• I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Game
  • Black
  • Choose

• There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • Nothing
  • More

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Support

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Doing

• The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Changes

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Fun
  • Dance

• I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Fun
  • House
  • Energy

• I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dying

• There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • Nothing
  • More

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People
  • Fun

• Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

  

  Sanjay Dutt
  • People
  • Fun
  • Kind

• I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

  

  James Baldwin

• Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

  

  John McTiernan
  • Fun