“When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.” IfsKnowsFeelsKindCan DoCuttingProductsLike YouFinalsLimitation Author:Rachael Taylor
“Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.” WritingBigsFilmSongWishEasyCan DoCuttingHairDirectorsComparisonOverwhelmingYou Can Do ItScopeMagnitudeWriting SongsFilm DirectorsBagelsHair Cut Author:Tom Waits
“[Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.” PeopleWayFeelsCertainCan DoCuttingSkillsComedianSurgeonsWeird Things Author:Nick Swardson
“When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.” ThinkingHumansLooksIdeasPlayCan DoHuman BeingsCuttingLike YouDoctorsSurgeryYou Can Do It Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.” PeopleIfsDoeWholeCan DoCuttingEdgesValuableWhole LifeNo MoneyCutting EdgeEducating Yourself Author:Tony Robbins
“I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in Illustrator, then laser-cut. I like the fact that it's slightly wrong; I think it gives it a beauty. The individual and handmade will always be worth more than what a computer can do, at least until computers can learn how to make mistakes.” ThinkingWantGivingFactsIndividualProcessCan DoMistakeCuttingComputerMaking MistakesLasersIllustratorsScalpelsHandmade Author:Ben Eine
“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.” ThinkingWritingFirstsEnoughHelpingCan DoRealizingPleasureCareersToo MuchCuttingMaterialsRelax Author:Ramsey Campbell
“When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.” KnowsWayWritingI CanWholeCharacterStoriesHappensCertainCan DoDecisionNumbersCuttingPossibilityPagesScriptsBunchFasterMaking DecisionsCutting Off Author:Steven Zaillian
“The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.” PeopleIfsBookJobsGuyCan DoCuttingReaderHorrorAdvantageTheaterEfficientPacksMovie TheaterOne On One Author:Stephen King
“Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.” I CanStrongCan DoCuttingFieldsFingersGuitarOilSuitsGuitar PlayingOil Field Author:Trace Adkins
“My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.” ThinkingLongI CanCan DoCuttingStyle Author:M. Night Shyamalan