Eric Stoltz Quotes

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

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• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Talent
  • Interest
  • Directing

• It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Escape
  • Episodes
  • Mayberry

• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • American
  • Mean

• I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I wore one on the first episode of season one [of Fuller House], and then I saw it, and I went back to my hairstylist, and I was like, "We are never using this again!" I know it was a good throwback for that first season, but I am 40, I cannot pull off a scrunchie anymore. Nobody should be wearing a scrunchie anymore. I feel angry. That is my tipping point.

  

  Andrea Barber
  • Good
  • House
  • Angry

• I had an unbelievable experience on '24'. We shot 198 episodes, and I was as excited about shooting the 198th as I was the first.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Experience
  • Shooting
  • Episodes

• Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Mind
  • Episodes
  • Subsequent

• If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Pain
  • Daffodil
  • Wrap

• The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Directing

• I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did Reno 911! for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing, and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the Star Trek thing.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Inspired
  • Movies
  • Directing

• That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Directing

• I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • I Love
  • Head
  • Directing

• I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.

  

  Seth Gabel
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Film

• Ten episodes goes by really quickly, especially when you've got a really tough shooting schedule of seven-day episodes.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Episodes
  • Schedule
  • Quickly

• A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • People
  • Episodes
  • Restraint

• British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Chinese

• I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Today
  • Years
  • Knows

• I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Comedy
  • Charity
  • Donate

• I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

  

  Rory McIlroy
  • Game
  • Play
  • Travel

• I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Directing
  • Episodes
  • Wrap