Nick Petrie Quotes
I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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My forte is awkwardness.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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What I do is I do my job.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
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If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
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You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
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I also work with the spirituality of people.
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I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
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I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
