John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes

I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.

John Whitney "Whit" Stillman

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• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• I have always believed that what goes around comes around.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Always
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  • Goes

• The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Remember
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• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

  Malin Akerman
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• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
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• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Me
  • Mouth
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• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Myself
  • I Can
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• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Myself
  • Television
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• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
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• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.

  

  Larry King
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• I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Trying
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• The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't reply. Knew it, I thought. Honestly," I said. What?" Come on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous." What is?" Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. "You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. "The sa-woon." The what?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Struggle

• I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Up
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• I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Seeing
  • Scripts
  • Plot