Jonathan Mostow Quotes

The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'

Jonathan Mostow

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Enough
  • Stupid
  • Nobody

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Atheist

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• I look very serious. I look stern even when I'm not stern. If I'm not feeling cross, I look a little bit cross. I can't help it. It's just my face.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Serious

• True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Good
  • True
  • Faith

• Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Important

• It starts with you in your own community. Just being kind to one another, being supportive of one another, and being loving and respectful. I can't tell you how far that will get you in life, just being able to do that.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Community

• My writing life has included the struggle to bring up three children. What I do three or four times a year is take myself off to a hotel room to unblock a problem.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'

  

  Jonathan Mostow
  • Life