- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Understand Quotes
Understanding rarely arrives on schedule.
This collection looks at understanding from a few directions - youthful decisions made before their weight is clear, a film crew needing to share one vision to avoid getting lost, and skepticism toward reasoning that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Related lines continue in Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time.
- Nov 07, 2020
Kids will often see something different and feel insecure about it because they don't understand it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020