Nicholas Stoller Quotes

And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

Nicholas Stoller

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• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Influence

• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Film
  • Cinema
  • Editing

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Independence

• The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Live
  • Moments
  • See

• I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Good
  • Never
  • Math

• Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Moments
  • Genius
  • Potential

• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Up
  • Song
  • Moments

• You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Moments

• 'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?''‘The mood will pass, sir.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Mood

• I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history - in the good and the bad moments.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • Good
  • History
  • Bad

• The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there’s certain moments where that really cuts through.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Job
  • Moments
  • Humanity

• I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Moments

• As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Moments
  • Doubt

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Eye

• The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

  

  Jan Brewer
  • Believe
  • Immigration

• I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Confidence
  • Breathe

• I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

  

  Marshall Curry
  • People
  • Kids
  • Dream

• I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Human
  • Changed
  • Autism

• And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Moments
  • Jokes
  • Rooms