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I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money, which is a very hard thing to do.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what's happening in my life.

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind people I knew or would meet. I just wrote urgently - naïvely, I suppose, looking back.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

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I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea.