“In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.” Quote by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.” NeedsKidsDangerousAdultsWiser Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
“I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .” IfsFeelsBelieveRealStoriesKidsBuildingNeededMachinesBeing RealTime TravelDiscoveringGroundedEdgyTime Machine Author:Dean Israelite
“I guess the hard part is more in the development stage when we're writing it. The logic is hard. You come up with a great idea and you get all excited that it's going to work and then you go down two hours and then one guy turns to everyone and goes, 'Wait, that makes absolutely no sense because if he was there, then this wouldn't have happened, then this,' and it completely implodes.” IfsWritingTwoIdeasHardGuyTurnsWaitingHoursHappenedStageDevelopmentLogicCome UpExcitedGoing To WorkGreat Idea Author:Dean Israelite
“I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?” IfsThinkingLittlesSometimesCharacterFoundBitsTermAudienceHonestLittle BitExcitingCamerasRapMediumsBeing Honest Author:Dean Israelite
“I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.” BigsAbleActorsLanguageMaterialsSceneBeatsSticksScriptsBelieverRehearsal Author:Dean Israelite
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more.” PeopleKnowsWantSufferingLossRight NowStandardsInvestmentRationalSavingMore MoneyClueDefaultVolatilityUnexplainable Author:Dan Ariely
“If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I enjoy the cup of coffee, what else could I not do in the future because I buy this cup of coffee?” PeopleIfsThinkingEnjoyDecisionCoffeeCupsCoffee CupMaking Decisions Author:Dan Ariely
“We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.” WantHandsHappensHouseCarHugeBiggerNeighborExpensiveVacationEscalationGoing On Vacation Author:Dan Ariely
“Kids don't care what party they have, right? They want cake and they want to run around. Nothing else matters. But in this escalation, all the kids want parties like their friends. So, if all the friends have an amazing, expensive party, they all want the same thing. If we all got to scale down as a coordinated effort, all the kids would have been just as happy.” IfsWantHas BeensMatterCareRunningKidsPartyEffortDon't CareScalesExpensiveCakeEscalation Author:Dan Ariely