“I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.” Quote by John Landgraf
“The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.” WorldWayTwoWarPoliticalCultureNamesPartyGood ThingsCinemaWar Of The WorldsOne TimeRegimesEgyptTwo WorldsPolitical LifeArab World Author:Hisham Melhem
“For me, personally, I'm more comfortable with what I would call third-person entertainment, meaning watching a character that's explicitly not me and experiencing something through a character's eyes, than what I would call first-person entertainment, which is a video game in which I am the character.” FirstsPersonsCharacterEyeGamesComfortableThirdsEntertainmentVideoFirst PersonThird PersonExperiencing Something Author:John Landgraf
“If you create enough space in Egypt, civil society will revive itself, and then will you have all of these secular forces, liberals, nationalists and others, compete with the Islamists. And then you will see the Islamists reduced to their size.” IfsEnoughForceSpaceSizeSecularEgyptCivil SocietyReviveIslamists Author:Hisham Melhem
“I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.” IfsThinkingKindSelfHomeSixWeaponsRoundsVery GoodDefenseAdequateSelf DefenseClipHandgunsMayhemShotguns Author:John Landgraf
“Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.” YearsKindTwoEndsFilmProcessDifficultComedyFinalsShootingTwo YearsEditingPolishComedic Author:John Cleese
“It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.” TryingDifficultBlueScratches Author:John Cleese
“I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.” PeopleThinkingHardYoungAudienceMajorityWideComedianRangeHard Things Author:John Cleese
“The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.” PeopleSometimesHardShowsRunningFilmStuffSawsHugeTheaterOriginalsCompetitionStudiosVersionsFilmmakerReportsEarning Author:Tom Hanks
“No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.” ProblemGonePlanetsNo Hope Author:John Cleese
“What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.” KnowsOrderKnow How Author:Tyler Perry