Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Engel

We've spent eight years developing our craft, and now we have a troupe we're really happy with and we want to go further.

Tracie Thoms

I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Chris Pelchen

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Miguel Nicolelis

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

Lord Samuel

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Kim Fields

God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

Susan Vreeland

Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds.

Adam Mansbach

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

Carlos Ghosn

We're going to see at best, stagnation in the market, ... Most of the growth will come from the developing countries.

Harmony Korine

When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

Mark Waters

When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

Scott Aukerman

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

Gavid Hood

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Gary Sinise

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

Lori Petty

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

James Franco

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Callie Khouri

Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

Kim Cattrall

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

Brian Henson

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Charlie Cox

In other films and TV shows, we might say, "Well, they're just evil." In our show [Daredeval], we're trying to say, "There's bad actions, but not necessarily bad people."

Brian Eno

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.

Dave Franco

I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.

Dave Chappelle

I don't care if I ever work in TV again.

David Krumholtz

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Dave Barry

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.