Peyton Reed Quotes

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

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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
  • 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

• 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

• I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Free

• Thus the closing scenes of this present age will be a reproduction of the days of Noah: the same intense worldliness, and at last positive inability to care for the things of God, which was displayed by the antediluvians, will also be characteristic of our world when Christ begins the judgments that will quickly culminate in the glory of His appearing.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Age
  • Present
  • Scenes

• 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

• 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 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

• I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Baby
  • Scenes
  • Ecstasy

• 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

• Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

  

  Michelle Tea
  • Beautiful
  • Pain
  • Planets

• Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • Insurance
  • Survive

• For some players, luck itself is an art

  

  Paul Newman
  • Art
  • Player
  • Luck

• Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Behavior
  • Principles

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

  

  Peyton Reed
  • Background
  • Scenes
  • Directing