Scott Ellis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
-
I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
-
I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
-
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
-
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
-
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
-
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
-
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
-
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
-
I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
-
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
-
The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
-
We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
-
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
-
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
-
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
-
I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.
-
The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.
-
We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.
-
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
-
I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more # romantic than the present day
-
As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
