Evan Quotes

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.

There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

Im not an Internet person that reads behind-the-scenes stuff. I see a trailer, and if it looks good, then I go. Thats that.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

There's a big song at the beginning [of Sausage Party], and that was really fun to do. It felt like we were living out a dream of being the South Park guys for a minute.

I'm a blue Powerade man myself.

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.

Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.

I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.

I expect to get paid if I do something.

I cant wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert Terminator 2 to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

I got Twitter like two months ago, checked it out a bit more, and I concluded the only thing Twitter I'm interested in following is Nick Stoller.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.

The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.

You either expect to win, so when you do win, you're relieved instead of excited and if you lose instead of being motivated, you're embarrassed.

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

I watched 'It Happened One Night' and looked at online pictures and really liked Clark Gable's mustache and hair and the tuxedo. I just really liked that look.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

People have misconceptions about Marilyn Manson, of course, but they can think what they want.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.