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
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• 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
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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
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• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

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

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• 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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

  

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• Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

  

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• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

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• My girl was an outback type who could cope. She was content to sleep on the ground, cook on the open fire, nurse her children in the shade of a bough shelter, eat rabbits, carry water and wash her clothes in a four-gallon tin.

  

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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