Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

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• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
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• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
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• If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.

  

  Lake Bell
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• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
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• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

  

  Karan Johar
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• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
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• To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

  

  Ed Asner
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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
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• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

  

  Najib Razak
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• The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

  

  Ridley Pearson
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• I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

  

  Elena Ferrante
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  • I Believe

• There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Terrible
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• The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

  

  Steven Zaillian
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