Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

For me, my storyline in Big Little Lies is very complicated and nuanced. The script was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

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• They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Special

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Look
  • Director

• When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
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• I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Literature
  • Process
  • Script

• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Movie
  • Understood
  • Script

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Song
  • Powerful

• Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Should
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• Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

  

  Daniel Shipley
  • Great
  • Song
  • Written

• What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it

  

  Stephen Henderson
  • Music
  • Script
  • Notes

• The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Creative Process
  • Collaborative process

• You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Good
  • Done
  • Feeling

• I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Film
  • Cooking
  • Worst

• For me, my storyline in Big Little Lies is very complicated and nuanced. The script was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Written
  • Script
  • Scenes