Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

Steven Zaillian

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• I can't take the theater side out of myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Myself
  • Theater
  • Take

• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I like musicals and I love music.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Music
  • Like
  • Musicals

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Case
  • Commercial

• In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Company
  • Three
  • Pizza

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Succeed
  • Many
  • Depend

• I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feel

• I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Past

• Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Health
  • Insurance

• There's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Sky
  • Blind

• I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Characters
  • Ernest Hemingway

• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Creation
  • Characters

• I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

  

  Judy Greer
  • Film
  • Story
  • Nudity

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

  

  Steven Zaillian
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Editing