John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.
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I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
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For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
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I like television medium because it feels like we're doing a play, and I learned how to act in theater school, so that comes very naturally to me, this format. I like that people can laugh out loud when we're working. I like that we can make mistakes, unlike being onstage, where you can't.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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That old man eloquent.
