John Slattery Quotes
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
-
My daughter is my passion and my life.
-
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
-
If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
-
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
-
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
-
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
-
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
-
I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
-
The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
-
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
-
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
-
I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
-
The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.
-
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
-
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
-
I know when I need to be pushing it full speed; I know when I got to probe and allow the flow to open up, because, at the end of the day, on the basketball court, something's going to open up.
-
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
