Nicholas Stoller Quotes
When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
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I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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Before comfort had been squeezed out of the hard land, like blood out of stone.
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When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.
