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

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Fun

• But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and contribute to something that people can enjoy.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Fun
  • Enjoy

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

  

  John McTiernan
  • Fun