Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffery Smith

I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.

Terry Hill

I think you're confusing us with somebody who cares.

Richard Stanley

With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.

Rob Reiner

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

Rob Zombie

I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

Woody Allen

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

Robin Hobb

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

Robert M. Pirsig

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Dave Bautista

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

Nigel Lythgoe

Jon Scoffield was an incredible director and producer at ATV. I met him when I was 30 and he made great things happen in my career. He's still alive, but we're no longer in touch.

J. M. Roberts

John is one of the top parks and recreation directors I've seen. He has a great feel for the needs of the community, and that's reflected in the facilities.

James Williams

He just sort of surveys things, ... Sometimes, he'll tell the director something. But he's pretty quiet. And I think that's a good role for him.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Aaron Johnson

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Dan Gilroy

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little rural towns, or set a hundred years ago.

Eddie Johnson

I was lucky. I was in the right place at the right time. I moved into the box, and Landon made a very unselfish play to pass the ball.

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Sofia Carson

When I was 18, I moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA.

Jeff Garcia

Had I signed a day or two ago, we could've been teammates. He's moved on and I've stepped into a place where he played. . . . If I were to have an opportunity to be a teammate of his again, I wouldn't back down from the situation.

Dean Baker

Historically, rent prices and sale prices have moved together.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Sean Kelly

We thought we had moved away from this kind of thing.

Don Lucia

I thought we moved the puck well, and Kellen was there when we needed him. We had some nice goals.

Paul Kariya

I thought we moved the puck around pretty well. I thought we played well five-on-five, but when you don't score that way, that's when the power play has to step up.

Robert Schwentke

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

Eoin Colfer

I'm kind of in the dark. All I know is that the screenplay is finished.

Ridley Scott

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Christopher Darden

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Richard Morris

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

Khandi Alexander

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Rachel Brosnahan

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

Kenneth Clarke

They suddenly thought they had someone with the X-factor.

Bill Xia

It's not that suddenly we did something new.

Lynsey Addario

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Gary Jones

Suddenly you've got this big-screen, movie-screen, home-theater experience, wherever you are.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Derek Stafford

He comes out every day. He comes out just like we do. He's just trying to get better.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Keith Cooper

I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away. I had no idea what was going on.

Mark Leibovich

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.