What You Want Quotes - Page 36

• When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.

  Liza Johnson

  People, Ensemble, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

  Charles Burnett

  Real, Character, Personality

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Raising your kids vegetarian is a great way to encourage them to do the opposite of what you want! But the goal is not to have them have the same values that I have. It's to have them act on their values.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Kids, Opposites, Goal

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• The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?

  Gwen Stefani

  Digging, Want, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.

  Gordon Willis

  Eye, Light, Doe

  "All women look beautiful to me now". Interview with Chris McCoy, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Careers, Want, Savvy

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Essence, Choices, Arbitrary

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

  Bill Bonner

  Investing, Want, What You Deserve

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• Always do what you like, do what you want, and try your best to be happy.

  Moon Jong-up

  Trying, Want, Try Your Best

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• What you want to know is... does it shorten your life? You can do
  those kinds of questions in mice, but those are expensive to do and no
  one's been really doing them.

  Bruce Ames

  Doe, Want, Kind

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Reality, Want, Immortality

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• If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Reality, Want, Ifs

  Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• It's never about what YOU want.

  Roger Verge

  Want

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• If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

  Linda Barnes

  Warning, Want, Might

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Scary, Directors, Want

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

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• Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

  David Twohy

  Diversity, Want, Opinion

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• If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Needs, Want

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• Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

  Kevin Smith

  Focus, Doing You, Want

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• But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

  Cory Monteith

  Giving Up, Real, People

  "Cory Monteith's Turning Point". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. June 24, 2011.

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• You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

  John Candy

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Del Griffith". "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", 1987.

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• In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

  Joan Jett

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

  Willis Regier

  Lovely, Flavor, Want

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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• Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

  Andy Richter

  Done, Want, Littles

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• I'd say a watch is like a jewel of the man. It's really to distinguish yourself, because in your watch people can see who you are, more or less, what you want to represent to other people.

  Ricardo Guadalupe

  Men, Jewels, People

  "Q&A with Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe". Interview with Christopher Hunt, www.askmen.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.

  Wendy Greuel

  Dream, Answers, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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