- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
- Nov 07, 2020
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.
- Different Shapes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Shaq stems from my YouTube series 'Somewhere in London.' I just wanted to create something that was multi-character and multi-dimensional.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
- Nov 07, 2020
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020