Nicole Holofcener Quotes

The movie is in my head and that's the movie. But I'd be crazy to not be flexible. I think because I have the movie in my head, I can be flexible. I know what's going to work and not work and I know, generally, what I can change and bend and have the movie still work.

Nicole Holofcener

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• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Turn
  • Wants

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Good
  • Education
  • Quality

• I was not interested by cinema when I was young.

  

  Chantal Akerman

• I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Job
  • Comedy

• My job is to not take for granted when somebody says, 'Oh, this is all just a made-up, phony scandal,' or, 'What this person did put the U.S. government at risk.'

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Up
  • Job
  • Risk

• I don't go to a lot of other directors' sets; directors don't come to mine. Directors are all very cordial with each other, but they're not necessarily friendly.

  

  Peter Berg

• Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Nature
  • Interesting
  • Brain

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Friends
  • Parents

• There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Good
  • Attention

• The movie is in my head and that's the movie. But I'd be crazy to not be flexible. I think because I have the movie in my head, I can be flexible. I know what's going to work and not work and I know, generally, what I can change and bend and have the movie still work.

  

  Nicole Holofcener
  • Movie
  • Head
  • Flexible