George Tillman, Jr. Quotes

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.

George Tillman, Jr.

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• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Career
  • Want
  • Film

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • Care
  • Others
  • Take Care

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Reading

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Interest

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Health
  • Better

• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Science

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Wind

• I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Bored

• It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.

  

  C. R. Johnson
  • Up
  • Easy
  • Accomplish

• I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Comedy

• In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • People
  • Music
  • Movie

• When I think back on Kong, that was like difficult too, because there was no reality in making that movie. There was so much that was left to my own devices and imagination. And when I had to play a scene opposite a 45-foot ape, that was bit taxing on your imagination because obviously there was nothing there, you know.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.

  

  George Tillman, Jr.
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Romance