Stephen Gaghan Quotes

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

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• The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Important
  • Women
  • Money

• There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Great
  • Never
  • Misunderstanding

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
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• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
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• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
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• The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Now
  • Become
  • Destroy

• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Never
  • Silent
  • Tyranny

• I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Myself
  • Rock
  • Competition

• I do not seek. I find.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Find
  • Seek
  • Brainy

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Men
  • Food
  • Cook

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Challenges

• Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • U.S.
  • Within
  • Insults

• It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • God
  • Best

• When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Work
  • Together
  • Struggle

• Soon she’ll start yelling, I thought, soon she’ll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Humiliation

• Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that they all don't make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).

  

  Chika Anadu
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Film

• Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

  

  Stephen Gaghan
  • Film
  • Development
  • Average