Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Rogen

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

Seth Rogen

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

Seth Rogen

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

Sebastian Junger

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

Scott Derrickson

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

Seth Godin

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency within otaku is almost impossible. There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

Seth Godin

And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it's about can you get your idea to spread or not?

Seth Godin

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Seth Godin

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Seth Godin

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

Seth Godin

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Seth Godin

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

Seth Godin

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

Seth Godin

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Seth Godin

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Seth Godin

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Seth Godin

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Ravi Zacharias

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

Tom DeLonge

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Tom Cruise

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

Tom Cruise

If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

Todd Solondz

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

Todd Solondz

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Rajneesh

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

Michael Shermer

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

John Owen

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Norah O'Donnell

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

John Newman

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

John Waters

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

John Thune

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.