“I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.”
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People Quotes — page 909 of 5018
“Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.”
“[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.”
“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
“I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.”
“You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.”
“It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.”
“I like filmmakers where, if their film comes on and you step in halfway through it, you can recognize that, hey, this is a Coen Brothers film. Or, hey, this is a Stanley Kubrick movie. You can recognize some filmmakers. Like, if you put on a Sam Raimi movie, you can tell that it's a Sam Raimi movie pretty quickly. I like a signature style that people can recognize and relate to, and connect with. I think that is part of why we seek out certain directors. We want to see how they view the world.”
“I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.”
“People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.”
“The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault.”
“Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical.”
“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.”
“It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.”
“Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.”
“People love that monkey torture.”
“Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.”
“Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.”
“Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.”
“I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.”