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“If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.”

Ifs Want Film Cutting Scene Shots Originals Remakes

Author:Michael Haneke

“When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.”

People Needs Feels Mean I Can Done Shows Cutting Ready Shapes Finals Range Over It Rough Editing

Author:Noah Baumbach

“You have to learn to cut your cloth accordingly. But it seems to be a human weakness. Once you start making a lot of money, you just join in with everyone else. It's like the banks, and we've seen what happens there.”

Humans Seems Happens Cutting Weakness Lots Of Money

Author:John Hurt

“There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street.”

Ifs Knows Giving Trying Ends Kids School Young Cutting Streets Messages Focused Wrong Direction Positive Messages

Author:Prince Royce

“I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.”

Should Shows Cutting Lonely Show Me Blades Razors

Author:Andy Biersack

“I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.”

Ifs Cutting Department Cartoon Invited Animation Salary Mgm

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.”

Way Littles Made Reason Together Bits Cutting Little Bit Be Good Dice

Author:Christopher Walken

“People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.”

People Kind Film Cutting Survival Edges Cutting Edge

Author:Wes Craven

“Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.”

World Want Literature Enjoy Fiction Cutting Feet Streets Activity Rest Of Life

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.”

Firsts I Can Play Care Used Grows Growing Up Cutting Grew Grew Up Lows Nba Flip Ankles Back In The Day Sandals Flip Flops

Author:Rajon Rondo

“I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, "Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set." Everyone would be looking around for this cat.”

Men Would Be Remember Film Moving Used Laughing Cutting Cat Sorry Lips Intense Noise Elephants Film Set Elephant Man

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.”

People Ifs World Trying Wells Persons Done Happens Eye Together Romance Novel Cutting Century Historical Working It Our World Romance Novel Photoshop

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Does anyone pray before they cut a tree? I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the timber industry. But my vision is that that day is coming. I have a vision of a world in which we relate to each other as souls - not as personalities - not as bodies and minds and capabilities to accomplish things in this domain of the five sense, but as immortal spirits learning together how to co-create this world.”

World Mind Doe Soul Body Together Spirit Vision Five Cutting Tree Havens This World Personality Industry Praying Accomplish Relate Immortal Capability Domain Mind And Body Timber

Author:Gary Zukav

“A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance.”

People Sometimes Cutting Circumstances

Author:Dave Chappelle

“I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.”

Ifs Cutting Jokes Doctors Coffee Obsessed Damage

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood.”

Firsts Real Pieces Cutting Design Band Hollywood Drawing Endeavor Clothings Costumes Sewing

Author:Ashley Purdy

“Sometimes, you cut off people and you don't even let them know that you aren't messing with them anymore. A lot of people cut themselves off because they can't deal with the new stuff that you have going on.”

People Knows Sometimes Stuff Deals Cutting New Stuff

Author:Kirko Bangz

“I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.”

People Firsts Two Book Enough Three Cutting Presses Glad Chapters Had Enough

Author:Donald Miller

“In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.”

World Heart Technology Records Cutting Listening Commitment Crucial Replay Zoom Great Technology

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.”

Way Art Today School Hate Cutting One Thing Program I Hate Committees Curriculum Things I Hate

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan of a short story, then cut it as short as possible, try to evolve all the necessary details. I know far more about the characters than what actually comes out of the writing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Character Stories Cutting Plans Details Evolve Lazy Short Story

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.”

May Suffering Father Heaven Christ Perfect Company Lord Pieces Cutting Ready Conflict Glory Crosses Mark Ill Corruption Wounds Stealing Portraits Affliction

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.”

Mother Cutting Passing Passings Touching Purification Passing By Untouchability

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.”

Cutting Equality Peasants Cutting Off

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“I called the hotel operator and she said, "How can I direct your call?" I said, "Well, you could say 'Action!', and I'll begin to dial. And when I say 'Goodbye', then you can yell 'Cut!'"”

Wells Said Humor Action Funny Cutting Direct Goodbye Hotel Saying Goodbye Operators

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I ordered a club sandwich, but I'm not even a member. "I like my sandwiches with three pieces of bread." "Well, so do I!" "Then let's form a club." "OK, but we need some more stipulations. Instead of cutting the sandwich once, let's cut it again. Yes, four triangles, arranged in a circle, and in the middle we will dump chips." "How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?" "I'm for 'em!" "Well, this club is formed."”

Needs Feels Wells Humor Funny Form Three Pieces Four Cutting Middle Members Clubs Circles Bread Ems Chips Sandwiches Dump Triangles Toothpicks Stipulations

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"”

Thinking Should Humor Happens Funny Wish Cutting Car Months Presses Things Happen Crap Horns Sidewalk

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".”

Ifs Knows Should Humor Funny Together Cutting Arms Type Corn Corn On The Cob

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"”

Thinking Said Humor Funny Answers Cutting Like You Understood Raised Damn Restaurants Eggs Chickens Sandwiches Waitress Buns

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"”

Thinking Said Shows Humor Bigs Funny Company Cutting Balls Intention Tennis Ems They Said Screws Potatoes Initials Rubber Laid Back Tennis Balls Pringles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"”

Men Way Want Looks Hard Home Humor Would Be Funny Hours Half Cutting Grass Mobile Sneak Repo Man

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.”

People Thinking Social Cutting Internet Tools Dues Social Change Availability

Author:George Lucas

“Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.”

Made Used Asks Cutting Strange Ask Me Suspects Nuts Haircuts Interviewers

Author:Emo Philips

“The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.”

Thinking Writing May Able Song Enjoy Path Cutting Sick Pops Pop Music Music Love

Author:Mac DeMarco

“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.”

Made I Can Stuff Enjoy Four Cutting Imagine Brother Scene Pages Happenings Balls Green Screens Teeth Dialogue Tennis Gas Twins Adaptation Because I Can Tennis Balls Twin Brother

Author:Nicolas Cage

“If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Long Records Cutting

Author:Jason Aldean

“I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. So, I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.”

People Want Trying Real Kindness Nice Cutting Advantage

Author:Mike Epps

“I was never really cut out to be a student, I prefer to actually work and get a project done and learn that way- but I have a huge respect for good teachers and even enjoy teaching...I am a conundrum!”

Way Done Enjoy Teacher Cutting Teaching Students Huge Projects Good Teacher Conundrums

Author:Holly Golightly

“A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.”

Whole Bigs Song Mistake Millions Cutting Stones Filmmaker Rolling Rolling Stones Big Mistake

Author:Rob Zombie

“One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.”

Thinking Should Problem Games Pieces Cutting Source Politician Creating Bigger Prosperity Arguing Destructive Zero Pie Funding Zero Sum Game

Author:Michio Kaku

“When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.”

Stills Body Care Hurt Cutting Chains Got Hurt

Author:Rain

“Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.”

Thinking Men Half Cutting Thirds Series Bottom Shirts Proportion Think Of You

Author:Tim Gunn

“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Sometimes Play Together Reading Actors Records Cutting Doors Stage Scripts Don't Trust Stage Directions

Author:Al Pacino

“I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.”

Humor Funny My Own Too Much Cutting Hair Sick Coming Out Barbers

Author:Robert Frost

“I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.”

Want Humans Political Levels Cutting Photography Connections Abstraction

Author:James Nachtwey

“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.”

Needs Firsts Reality Situation Records Cutting Middle Tables Lays Pops Organs Surgery Rip Anesthetics

Author:Gerard Way

“The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.”

Firsts I Can Book Play Today Remember Heaven Easy Black Cutting Seeing Creatures Radio Hearing Tales Teeth Comic Rays Mars Comic Book Bradbury Radio Plays Lagoons

Author:Stephen King

“I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.”

Thinking Want Writing I Can Cutting Horrible Awful Theme Scare Spiders

Author:Stephen King

“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”

“The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.”

Firsts Art Two Ideas Might Together Grows Half Pieces Four Cutting Tree Strange Seeds Apples Pears

Author:Yoko Ono

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