“I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.” WellsFilmStuffEnjoyCuttingCoupleFitSceneConsolationDvds Author:Jay Roach
“Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.” KindBigsStuffCuttingObjectivesGenre Author:Ted Rall
“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.” IfsThinkingFeelsShouldBookEndsEnoughStuffHoursFiveToo MuchCuttingAdapted Author:Jeremy Sisto
“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.” FirstsDoneLeftStuffSidesCuttingHugeTaxesAccidentsCombinationBagsDeficitReally CoolTax CutsPentagonDeluded Author:Thomas Frank
“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?” YearsHappensThreeStuffCuttingHappenedHollywoodThree YearsStuff Happens Author:Dana Fox
“When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.” FirstsWantedStuffCuttingEggsDvds Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
“Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.” IfsWantMindFirstsDoeCharacterCoursesStuffCuttingSpecialColorNormalScriptsSuitsTiesHatsIngredientsAssetsCostumesCementBlahWearing A Suit Author:Morgan Freeman
“Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.” PeopleMayEasyStuffCuttingActivityDigitalCheatingIllegal Author:G. Hannelius
“I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.” StoriesStuffSuccessfulCuttingConnectedBrutal Author:Judd Apatow
“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.” StuffBlackLosesWhiteAudienceComedyNiceCuttingCrazyMusicalAlbums Author:Chris Rock
“I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and hands in them - gruesome stuff. I had them all around the house, and if someone couldn't relate to it in some artistic way and instead just said "Yuck," then there probably wouldn't have been anywhere for us to go.” IfsWayHas BeensSaidHandsHouseStuffChallengesCuttingFeetPhotographEdgesArtisticRelatePeterCutting EdgeYuck Author:Richard Gere
“Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.” UseBigsStuffCuttingAreasEdgesComedianKnivesBowlsAnalogiesSpoonsCutting Edge Author:Brian Regan
“We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.” PeopleProblemBigsRunningEnergyLeftStuffLevelsIssuesCuttingGrowingCenturyCrisisClimateClimate ChangeCategoriesFloodGoing To WorkTwentieth CenturySuppliesBig ProblemsDroughtFood Supply Author:Margaret Atwood
“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.” WayFirstsKidsSchoolFunStuffCuttingWifeDadFirst TimeMy DadMy WifeCooksMakersItalianKnivesSauceOld SchoolPastaHomemadeNoodlesItalian FoodMeatballsMy Wife And Kids Author:Joey Fatone
“I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.” IfsThinkingMindStuffEffortCuttingHavensNosesBloodyJumpingJumping In Author:Tom Weston-Jones
“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsReasonMomentsUseEnergyStuffLinesBreakAudienceLaughingCuttingSpecialFrontsPerformancesShootingExtrasThat MomentDelivery Author:Ken Marino
“Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.” KnowsStoriesStuffClearCuttingAmbitionGood StoryGreat Writers Author:Donald Miller
“The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."” ThinkingFirstsMightStuffLosesFiveCuttingMinutesDirectorsGainsStudiosReleaseFive MinutesSuggesting Author:Barry Sonnenfeld
“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.” PeopleKnowsSometimesStuffDealsCuttingNew Stuff Author:Kirko Bangz
“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.” MadeI CanStuffEnjoyFourCuttingImagineBrotherScenePagesHappeningsBallsGreenScreensTeethDialogueTennisGasTwinsAdaptationBecause I CanTennis BallsTwin Brother Author:Nicolas Cage
“A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.” KindDoeSeemsStuffCuttingPagesOrdinaryBackwardsStorytellerTenseModernismShufflePresent Tense Author:Philip Pullman
“I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."” KnowsShouldI CanTwoHumorFunnyTogetherStuffLosesBreakForeverCuttingRocksFinePaperThirdsDestroyedDamageTake MeBentBreak ThroughBack TogetherDynamiteScissors Author:Demetri Martin
“I'm very into the military and police stuff. Gear and technical gear is something that's changing every day and every day you're trying to be on the cutting edge and improve your stuff more and more because your life depends on it. And so, the guns and the gears are changing constantly.” TryingStuffCuttingMilitaryDependsGunPoliceEdgesGearsCutting Edge Author:Steven Seagal
“For Keeping the Faith, I looked at [George ] Cukor's old films like The Philadelphia Story, stuff that's hilariously funny and really smart with a cutting critique in the humor, too. With this, when I read it, I was laughing a lot.” StoriesFilmStuffLaughingCuttingSmartCritiquePhiladelphiaKeep The FaithReally Smart Author:Edward Norton
“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindLittlesDoeStillsIdeasAgeStuffBitsLaughingCuttingLittle BitSingingOkayEdgesPopsNo IdeaFiftyBelieve In MeLongevityPop MusicSpearsCutting EdgeHeartbreakerNsync Author:Pat Benatar
“I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.” IfsGivingTryingWarFactsGuyStuffPayCuttingPlansFiguresListeningDrugTaxesDollarsNotionDebtBunchCakeDeficitLecturesPrescriptionsSuggestingTax CutsPrescription Drugs Author:Barack Obama
“Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.” PeopleWellsKindDifferentDoneLastsFilmUsedOpportunityStuffTechnologyCuttingCommitmentEdgesSpotsFeaturesCrewEquipmentTestingDifferent PeoplesDronesCutting EdgeRigs Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."” KnowsWayDoeImportantMomentsCharacterStoriesFeelingsHappensActionStrongStuffLinesActingCuttingLike YouElementsPicksSurpriseReactionsLive LifeStrongestWhat's ImportantSkiingStuff Happens Author:Mira Sorvino
“Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.” FirstsStuffCuttingShotsVersions Author:Fede Alvarez
“There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.” IfsWould BeAgeStuffCuttingEffectsRocksCamerasSmooth Author:Adam Shankman
“Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.” WantArtAgeActorsStuffCuttingAchieveSimplicityUselessGet BetterUseless Stuff Author:James Purefoy
“My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsMadeSaidBigsUsedGirlStuffCan DoChurchForeverCuttingViolenceMomFirst TimeInspiredFeministCrowdsMy MomMagazinesDomestic ViolencePostersYellingHousewifeBasementsInspired To Work Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think all the fight stuff. I'm cut out for that. I used to wrestle in high school so I really love it, yeah. I love all the fighting and martial arts. Hey, why am I not up there? Oh, it's just a rehearsal. Keep going.” ThinkingArtSchoolUsedFightingStuffCuttingHigh SchoolYeahHeyMartial ArtsKeep GoingRehearsal Author:Jaimie Alexander
“Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie.” MindFirstsKindReadingStuffSoundCuttingDown AndScriptsMillionaireScreenplaysGreat SuccessSlumdog Millionaire Author:A. R. Rahman
“I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.” TwoActionFilmThreeStuffCuttingWrittenAverageProducers Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.” PeopleThinkingHomeBigsWantedStuffCuttingGrewOfficeGrew UpMy FriendsAcquaintanceAtlantaProfanityCuss Words Author:Chris Tucker
“Sometimes when you cut your bed tracks right off the bat, you don't really know where the vocal is landing and where the background vocals are, and other loops and stuff that are going on.” KnowsSometimesStuffCuttingBedTrackBackgroundsBatsVocalLandingLoops Author:Tommy Lee
“I think a lot of people know me for just wearing cut-off denim shorts, an oversized white T-shirt with a pair of high-heels. I usually do wear basic stuff. Jeans and a white T is my go-to look.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksStuffWhiteCuttingShirtsPairsHeelsKnow MeJeansT ShirtHigh HeelsShortsDenim Author:Erin Wasson
“In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.” TryingStuffTermPiecesCuttingOriginalsDebtDamageAdaptationScreenwriting Author:Rod Serling
“In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would involve either spending loads of money on gear or else cutting demos in a proper studio. But I had this Casio keyboard and tape recorder and used to do stuff in my bedroom - I'd listen to Mantronix and all that. That was what I had so that's what I used.” PeopleIfsWantedUsedStuffProcessCuttingStudiosSpendingExpensiveTapeLoadBedroom80sGearsKeyboardsElectronic MusicRecordersDemos Author:Ekoplekz
“I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.” ThinkingSexStuffSecretCuttingShareSpecialPagesGardenValuableMemoirSecret Garden Author:Damian Barr
“I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.” IfsTryingStuffSituationCuttingUnityEditsHindsight Author:Damian Barr
“A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.” IfsFirstsMadeIdeasStatesUsedSongLeftStuffCuttingStageVersionsGermsMustardNew Songs Author:Bent Saether
“I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongSaidWarUseHandsRememberGrowsStuffAttentionCuttingLowsDoctorsDetailsAccidentsPay AttentionFaithfulCivil WarNailsDrsBeing FaithfulStabbing Author:Josh Radnor
“I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.” ShouldDoeIdeasGovernmentStuffCuttingAgreeBudgetsWelfareParksComing OutFbiEntitlementAffluentMedicaid Author:David Brooks