Nigel Dennis (Nigel Forbes Dennis) Quotes
My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.
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This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
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The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.
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You try and nurture the relationship. This day and age we have to do a little more networking than we used to do. All that does is make sure you befriend the people you are working with on a project so you hopefully carry it over to the next one.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
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We are not talking about a choice between this merger and the status quo, ... US Airways has been hemorrhaging money. If nothing happens, it is my judgment we'll see US Airways in bankruptcy or out of business in coming years.
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My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
