Peyton Reed Quotes

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

Peyton Reed

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

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

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

  

  Victor Garber
  • Interest
  • Talent
  • Directing

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

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Funny
  • Ambition
  • Directing

• Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Music
  • Businesses
  • Background

• Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Refuge

• I don't know much about my biological background.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Know
  • About
  • Background

• I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Action

• Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Going
  • Scenes
  • Little Did

• Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.

  

  Lara Logan
  • War
  • Revenge
  • Scenes

• Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Wife
  • Scenes
  • Navigating

• I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Choices
  • Characters
  • Directors

• For me, my storyline in Big Little Lies is very complicated and nuanced. The script was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Written
  • Script
  • Scenes

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

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • I Love
  • Head
  • Directing

• Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.

  

  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  • Beginning
  • Considered
  • Background

• Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Television
  • Show
  • Directing

• I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

  

  Theresa May
  • Country
  • Society
  • Background

• I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Reading
  • Film
  • Scenes

• Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

  

  Ben Richards
  • Background
  • Traps
  • Sci-Fi

• My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.

  

  Gayl Jones
  • Forget
  • Generations
  • Mama

• 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

• To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa paused, considering the ords. "Is that so?" "Men are uncomplicated, generally," Sally said, all too sage. "They're beasts when they want to be." "Brute ones!" "Ah, so you understand." Pippa tilted her head to one side. "I've read about them." Sally nodded. "Erotic texts?" "The book of Common Prayer.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Men
  • Different
  • Book

• I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Film
  • Cooking
  • Worst

• I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

  

  Peyton Reed
  • Background
  • Scenes
  • Directing