Jonathan Mostow Quotes

One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Different
  • Want
  • Try

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Expectations

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review.

  

  Otto Schily
  • People
  • Time
  • Decision

• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and I would always sit down and watch some of the classics. Bottle Rocket is one of my favorite comedies.

  

  Sarah Wright
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Brother

• Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

  

  Saadi
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met with Hillary Clinton, how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • House

• One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

  

  Jonathan Mostow
  • Thinking
  • Challenge