Nicholas Stoller Quotes

Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.

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• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Years
  • Lot
  • Squash

• I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Imagination

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Point
  • Breaking
  • No Point

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Moments
  • Miracle
  • Youth

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Two

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Holidays

• So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Up
  • You
  • Name

• The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women

• In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Beginning

• If racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists both male and female, hell, all liberals got together and had this big 'too much information,' 'go there,' voice...that would equal power. And that power would equal change. And that change would equal a revolution.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Power
  • Together
  • Revolution

• There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.

  

  Edward Ruscha

• I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

  

  James Hong
  • People
  • Emotional

• Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Respect
  • Trump
  • Judgment

• I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Trying
  • Night

• I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Family
  • Unity

• Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Money
  • Habit

• Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Important
  • Kind