Nicholas Stoller Quotes
All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
-
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
-
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
-
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
-
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
-
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
-
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
-
My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
-
I think music docs could turn off some people.
-
I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
-
A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
-
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
-
I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.
-
Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
-
What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
-
I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
-
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
-
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
-
When you go back and look at what people say about my essays, they're always going, 'What is this?' Because they're not exactly like other people's essays... The approach is not at all the recognized approach of a non-fiction writer. It's not linear. It isn't pyramidally based on fact.
-
Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
-
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
-
When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.
-
I have to entertain myself. An easy way to explain it is I worked in NY since I was five-years-old doing modeling and commercials, and that's a completely different world than in California where I think there's different dreams and aspirations of maybe being a so-called 'star' and so forth. Here you do your work, whether it's theater or commercials.
-
All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.
