William Drenttel Quotes
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).
Quotes to Explore
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
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I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
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I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.
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The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.
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It's always challenging to go into a role.
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When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.
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Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.
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Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.
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I'm very Type A; I like to get my list done.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).
