Material Quotes
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I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
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As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.
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As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
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You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
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To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.
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I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!
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The material world will always attract a lot of women. A lot of people would be down for that, whatever the cost.
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It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Earth is the material with the most potential because it is the original source material.
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I mean, I think there were a couple factors. I think that they were judging me and I was one of the few people to do any dark material. And that may have made me stick out a little bit more. I don’t think it was that edgy or crazy of material.
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A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.
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Where the material ends, art begins.
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I may not like the material, but I'm still a trouper.
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I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.
