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“When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.”

“When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.”

World Mind Humans Dream Desire Memories Deals Issues Emotional Human Mind Stakes

Author:Christopher Nolan

“When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Doe Song Serious Tvs Okay Scripts Stores Violent Block Shooting Restaurants Rapper Groceries Purses Grocery Stores

Author:Suge Knight

“When you're dealing with younger people, if you start acting like the leader or the expert or the elder statesman, 'well, let me tell you how this is...,' that's a great way to alienate young people and make them hate you.”

People Hate Acting Leader Let Me Hate You

Author:John C. Reilly

“When you're dealing with your life, my God, you gotta tell the truth.”

Telling The Truth

Author:Elaine Stritch

“When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.”

Illness Mental Illness

Author:Graeme Obree

“When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.”

Way Firsts Play Whole Body Hope Energy Can Do Levels Powerful Situation Objectives Most Powerful Translate Hopelessness You Can Do It Cellular

Author:O. Carl Simonton

“When you're depressed, there's no calendar. There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night, there's no seconds, there's no minutes, there's nothing. You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury.”

Night Minutes Cold Heavy Atmosphere Seconds Calendars Mercury

Author:Rod Steiger

“When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.”

Knows World Two Effort Novel Week Stage Amount Bed Finished Massive Two Weeks Manic

Author:Sherman Alexie

“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.”

Thinking Way Trying Littles Jobs Life Is Bits Lines Answers Brain Company Minutes Design Products Little Bit Code Pairs Straightforward Inventing Time To Think Neurons

Author:Steve Wozniak

“When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.”

Ifs Home Body Light Universe Natural Focus Fashion Design Planets Clothings Fabric Furniture Natural Light

Author:Betsey Johnson

“When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that you become something absurd or ascetic or anything like that, but not to expect something.”

Love Mean Wisdom Spirit Meditation Yoga Absurd Nervous Wellness Disappointed

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans.”

Important Stories Fans Critics Scripts Developing Icons

Author:Graham King

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”

Source: Change of Heart: A Novel

“When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.”

Way Character Stories Challenges Directors Behavior Unique Series Tone Pace Ongoing

Author:Bryan Cranston

“When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.”

Process Involved Layers

Author:Cate Blanchett

“When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the really tough fighting and some of the other street fighting type moves. You know, where it's not just show. It's not dressing it up for the cameras too much. It's pretty down and dirty, the way it should be. That's something I like to do. I do that.”

Knows Way Should Kind Character Stories Shows Moving Fighting Too Much Streets Type Tough Down And Cameras Dirty Dressings

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.”

Feels Character

Author:Griffin Dunne

“When you're directing, it is a little easier, because when you're the actor, you have a to be a little more of a child. You have to get into the child's aspect of your personality a little bit more.”

Children Personality

Author:John Turturro

“When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.”

I Can Helping Faces Enjoy Steps Emotional Couple Exhausted Coal

Author:Peter Jackson

“When you're disappointed romantically - when people evolve or they move on, when somebody doesn't love you in the same way anymore or you don't love somebody in the same way - it's devastating. Just because you leave a relationship doesn't mean that you don't love that person. It doesn't mean that you don't miss that person terribly.”

People Mean Moving Love You Missing Evolve Disappointed

Author:Sara Benincasa

“When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like.”

People Thinking Knows Way Matter Play Able Song Walks Like You Slips Popular Song I Like You

Author:Russell Peters

“When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying." It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight! When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!" --Urahara Kisuke”

Thinking Giving Dies Fighting Cutting Dying Hitting Pathetic Attacking Bleach

Author:Tite Kubo

“When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.”

Years Bigs Gone Months Big Movie

Author:Ridley Scott

“When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.”

Bigs Four Budgets Sheets Free Time

Author:Chris Rock

“When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.”

Shows Broadway Free Time Broadway Shows

Author:Maggie Grace

“When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing you're going to get the most out of. If you're trying to satirise a comedy, it's hard to do that - it doesn't really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I'm a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Wells War Hard Comedy Fans Serious Genre Genre Is War Movie

Author:Ben Stiller

“When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this”

Way Different Ends Deals Objects Defeat London Setting Settings Labels Different Ways Southern Usual Ripped Sahara

Author:Damon Albarn

“When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.”

Knows Made Film Realizing Blood Critics Shooting

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.”

People Film Decision Taken Away From You

Author:Ben Barnes

“When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.”

Ends Action Race Sun Shots Action Movie

Author:Wes Anderson

“When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."”

Wells Done Happens Vacuums

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed.”

Ifs Character Shows Three Love You Television Months Fingers Hated Television Shows Three Months Paychecks Fingers Crossed

Author:Jordana Brewster

“When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.”

Knows Firsts Three Actors Rooms Creative Impulse Pilots Bubbles

Author:Josh Gad

“When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play.”

Should Play Scene Embrace Theatre

Author:Raul Esparza

“When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.”

Play Night Actors Audience Fronts Speed All Night Responding Roller Coaster Coasters Roller Coaster Rides

Author:Sean Patrick Thomas

“When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.”

World Play Practicals

Author:Ben Schnetzer

“When you're doing a play, you're onstage, there's no stopping or starting, there's no stopping to reposition for the camera or have a check done. You're there 'till the end of the show. What that gives you is a great gift, which is to command the audience, and you get to play with your script and your fellow actors. Every night, it's different. Hopefully it goes well and you get a great response. But the technique that you have to have on film or television is so delicate. It's fine-tuning. That is very different from being onstage, but they both have important skill sets.”

Giving Important Different Done Film Night Audience Response Hopefully Delicate

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.”

Shows Radio Express Yourself

Author:Adam Carolla

“When you're doing a series like this, you're constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.”

Way Audience Series New Ways

Author:Nicholas Lea

“When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.”

Book Shows

Author:Josh Gad

“When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.”

Mean I Can Shows Humor Light Funny Left Minutes Worst Stage Red Method Clubs Frightened Candle Floating Red Lights

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.”

Pay Attention Television Series Pay Attention

Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.”

Way Mean Ideas Action Pieces Shots No Idea Choreography Meticulous

Author:Rob Marshall

“When you're doing an animated series, you tend to pitch storyboards. You write a script and then you draw a comic version of that script and put it up on big boards, and then you pitch it to a big room of executives and writers.”

Writing Bigs Rooms Draws Series Scripts Versions Comic Boards Executives Animated Animated Series

Author:Alex Hirsch

“When you're doing an investigation of a company that is doing things that they don't want to be found out, and they say, "I don't want to be on tape," you're not suddenly going to step away and say, "Okay, I'm not going to make a film."”

Want Film Found Company Steps Okay Tape Investigation

Author:David Farrier

“When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.”

Character Comedy Too Much Notion Preparing

Author:Will Ferrell

“When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.”

Knows Kind Found Strong Proud Conquer Bad Things Motivated

Author:Johnny Mathis

“When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there.”

Ifs Play Moments Film Actors Audience Laughing Comedy Stage Keys Scene Quiet Timing

Author:Wendell Pierce

“When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.”

Persons Comedy Wall Sticks Dirty Subjective

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

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