Erik Madigan Heck Quotes
I love working with both the old and the super young. Each offers different things that I can learn from and build off.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
-
My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
-
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
-
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
-
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
-
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
-
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
-
I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
-
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
-
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
-
The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
-
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
-
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
-
I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
-
Coca-Cola is an American icon.
-
I always want to grow and top myself.
-
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
-
I love working with both the old and the super young. Each offers different things that I can learn from and build off.
