Eric Stoltz Quotes

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Movies

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always been a Nike person.

  

  Wale
  • Always
  • Person
  • Nike

• My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Career

• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Victory

• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Good
  • School
  • Fashion

• Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Music
  • Free
  • Value

• All of the other books in the series... none of them are particularly like 'Ender's Game.'

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Game

• Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • People
  • Time

• I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Focus

• I had a very rainbow-colored childhood.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Childhood
  • Rainbow

• I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.

  

  Brantley Gilbert

• One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • Powerful

• If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Fighting

• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Gold

• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Solitude

• A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

  

  Eric Stoltz
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