Projects Quotes - Page 33

• One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book the writer published, in chronological order, to see how the writer changed over time, and to see how the writer's idea of his or her project changed over time, and to see all the writer tried and accomplished or failed to accomplish.

  Kyle Minor

  Book, Reading, Order

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

  David Gordon Green

  New Inventions, Industry, Invention

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• With scheduling and the way projects come up, I take the first thing that interests me and that moves me. If it's going to be fun, if I'm going to have a good time, and I'm going to enjoy the people I'm with, then that's a good enough reason to do it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Moving, People

  Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.

  Christine Swanson

  People, Interesting, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Decision, Half, Example

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• I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.

  April Parker Jones

  Encouragement, Moving, College

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

  Wangari Maathai

  Vulnerable, Tradition, Easy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Years, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• One thing I've found in any project is almost universally about three quarters of the way through - or maybe a little father, maybe seventh eighths on the way through - any project will explode.

  Steven Pressfield

  Father, Three, Littles

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Wall, Mistake, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content.

  Hannibal Buress

  Ideas, Creating, Progress

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fall, Air, Balls

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2008.

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• When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

  James Franco

  Voice, Creative, Decision

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.

  James Franco

  Careers, People, Proud

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Hands

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Nice, Musical, Would Be

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.186, Ravenio Books

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• Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.

  Joy Browne

  Sex, Simple, Psychology

  Joy Browne (2011). “Dating For Dummies”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

  David Edward Kirk

  Mean, Men, Division

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• The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Israel, Iraq

  "Senior Shiite Cleric Says U.S. Desperate". Forbes, August 7, 2007.

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

  Raymond Geuss

  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

  Eriq La Salle

  Differences, Important, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Theatre, Scripts, Agents

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• I just don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I'm always looking for something that's going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.

  Logan Lerman

  Challenges, Want, Nervous

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

  Corey Feldman

  Years, Certain, Can Do

  "EXCLUSIVE: Corey Feldman Talks Life, Angels, and 6 Degrees of Hell". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I like to do projects I feel some connection to.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Connections, Feels

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