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“If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.”

Ifs Trying Different Real Elements Screens Real Life Realistic Being Real

Author:Takashi Miike

“In retrospect, I think that I've been given quite a few scripts over the years that had dark elements to them but most of them took place in the countryside with a haunted house. I think I've probably had that script about six to 10 times over the past few years. Or it was something to do with the supernatural.”

Thinking Years Past House Given Dark Elements Six Scripts Over The Past Countryside Retrospect Haunted Houses

Author:Gillian Anderson

“I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.”

Ends Can Do Elements Train Iraq I Realized The End Of The Day Afghanistan And At The End Of The Day

Author:Nathaniel Fick

“We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of us love the idea of the star and more of the supernatural elements.”

Thinking Children Ideas Stories Beautiful Stars Wonderful Elements Mysterious Latin Latin America Latin American Supernatural Elements

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.”

Want Trying Ideas Character Certain Actors Imagine Type Elements Actresses

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.”

Thinking Men Way Wells May Sometimes Hard Together Turns Directors Elements Projects Surprise Fantastic Tone Pleasant Gauges Pleasant Surprises

Author:Anna Faris

“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”

Play Ability Audience Demand Elements Theater Gross

Author:Laura Ziskin

“The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.”

Wells Doe Whole Action Purpose Elements Dialogue Explanation Screenwriting

Author:Jonathan Tropper

“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Wells Looks Kind Important Shows Together Courses Perfect Style Tvs Elements Performances What If Performers Tv Shows Slick Perfect Marriage

Author:Edgar Wright

“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...”

“My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be.”

Way Want Looks Different Together Elements Clothes Decided

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.”

Thinking Should House Elements Clothes Protection Shelter Uniforms

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how they want to present their music. From there I usually try to tell a story visually that complements the music, that lets the music be the hero element of the project. I just try to do something that feels sincere and creative and a little bit home-brewed so it doesn't feel too plastic or phony.”

Way Want Feels Trying Littles Stories Home Artist Bits Responsibility Creative Hero Elements Comfortable Projects Little Bit Music Is Suits Sincere Plastic Phony Complement Clip

Author:Adria Petty

“I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but in literature I see it all the time - preoccupation with it, philosophical preoccupation, in fact. That's a principle element of literature and philosophy, often cited as the main element, the only real element. I say give it up.”

Way Giving Real Philosophy Facts Seems Literature Principles Elements Philosophical Obsessed Fear Of Death Preoccupation

Author:James Salter

“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.”

Made Ideas Whole Artist Three Careers Stage Painting Elements Good Ideas Skeletons

Author:Josh Smith

“The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.”

World States Political Interesting United United States Economic Elements Models Contemporary Select Really Interesting Prototype Economic Models

Author:Bruno Dumont

“I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.”

Done Film Games Chance Elements Outcomes Uncertain

Author:Jørgen Leth

“I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave.”

Littles Artist Style Elements Finals Wave Pops 80s Vocal Pop Art Glam

Author:Adam Lambert

“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.”

Ideas Song Process Sides Voice Elements Guitar Rhythm Triangles

Author:Panda Bear

“I seem to respond most to places that are more cosmopolitan because of my Manhattan upbringing. Some of the major international cities I've visited, like Madrid, Rome and London, have a lot of similarities and "New York" elements while ... having their own flavor.”

Seems Cities New York Elements Majors International London Rome Flavor Upbringing Manhattan Similarity Madrid

Author:Bobby Flay

“In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.”

World Way Humans Environment Elements Connections Inspired Driven Meaningful Lively Human Connection

Author:David Rockwell

“I love every aspect of the show. I've been very involved. It was important for me to be very involved in, you know, all of the creative elements. And so, you know, it - David, you know, being brought onto the show, you know, that - I always just wanted to make sure that we maintained the sophistication and intelligence of (the) - and the comedy that we were able to establish in the mini-series.”

Knows Important Shows Able Wanted Creative Comedy Involved Elements Aspect Series Sophistication

Author:Debra Messing

“Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.”

Universe Force Black Space Perfect Objects Theory Elements Concepts Definitions Holes Variety Construction Contrast Time And Space Black Hole Approximation

Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

“Boldness is a crucial element of genius.”

Genius Elements Crucial Boldness

Author:Horace Freeland Judson

“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

“The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.”

Men Greater Effects Stupid Fields Elements Intelligent Surprise Stupidity Intelligent Man Diffusion Stupid Men Element Of Surprise

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.”

“The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.”

Source: MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY

“I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can learn something from the rock, but you need to communicate with element. You have to be part of the element, not fight it.”

Needs Earth Fighting Rocks Planets Elements Connections Skins Communicate

Author:Fred Nicole

“For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.”

Sex Danger Elements Boring Speed

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.”

Humans Wells Earth Together Certain Heaven Middle Divine Elements Connected Aspiration Splits Ladders Celestial Crippled Divine Power

Book:Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?”

Universe Speak Imagine Flower Elements Grass Sailing Blades Bud Blades Of Grass

Author:Victor Hugo

“From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.”

Thinking Ideas Helping Lasts Film Challenges Differences Creative Huge Couple Elements Visuals Standpoint Challenging Myself

Author:Sasha Grey

“And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.”

“When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.”

People Giving Writing Kind Ideas Matter Reason Stories Wanted Film Found Stars Effort Pieces Elements Critics Guides Consumers Theme Description Plot Film Critics

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.”

World Kind Important Care Spiritual Spirit Culture Practice Elements Universal Around The World Indigenous Spiritual Practice Shamanism Indigenous Culture

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to have a very specific location in mind. The physical environment of where the opera takes place is very key - the "sound world."”

Ifs World Mind Looks Sound Environment Keys Elements Opera Butterfly Location

Author:Jake Heggie

“And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given to them by the animator, we don't know what the visual result will be until everything is completed. This result can often be unsatisfying, obliging us to repeat the process all over again, with new features.”

Knows Moving Given Process Results Shapes Elements Weight Various Speed Features Repeats Visuals Digital Attributes Particles Often Is Animator

Author:Martine Epoque

“A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom”

People Firsts Elements Institutions Property Private Property

Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.”

Ifs Would Be Justice Office Elements Ill Lawyer Falsehood Cradle Unnatural Awkwardness Ill Will

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.”

Four Air Drink Elements Good Friend

Book:P Is for Peril

Source: P Is for Peril

“There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.”

People Literature Pleasure Cutting Elements Size Malice Readiness Overestimate

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature”

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Tuthmosis IV was, like his father Amenhotep II, a belligerent pharaoh and one of the first to wage war without provocation beyond Egypt's boundaries. As a result of his aggressive attacks slaves and foreign elements were common in Egypt. Consequently, there was more intermarriage during his reign than at other times. Egypt was visited by merchants and traders and was extremely prosperous and cosmopolitan during this period.”

Firsts War Father Results Common Periods Elements Slave Boundaries Aggressive Reign Egypt Prosperous Merchants Traders Provocation Pharaohs Intermarriage

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.”

Facts Study Taken Land Subjects Civilization Elements Western Obvious Denied Elders Egyptian Idiom Nile Egyptian Civilization

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.”

Facts Today Known Accepting Land Civilization Elements Understood Tradition Threat West London Historian Rome Crowns Egypt Cradle Suppression Idiom

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.”

Thinking Art Difficult Elements Art Is Difficult Things

Author:Kingsley Amis

“If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.”

Ifs Way May Running Economy Imagine Groups Influence Elements International Congress Debt Motive Officials Frustration Frustrated Bankers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.”

Knows Trying Wells Seems Games Felt Causes Elements Performances Prepared Musical Lifts Glorious Decent Festivals Theatrical Climax Musical Performance

Author:Hermann Hesse

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