“The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoBookDifferentSometimesCharacterStoriesUniverseLinesMaterialsTvsSeriesTreasureMediumsComicBagsComic BookTv SeriesTake Your Time Author:Glen Mazzara
“I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material.” ThinkingCultureTaughtMaterialsAnxietyFilledGuiltEmbarrassingJewish Culture Author:Robert Mankoff
“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.” ThinkingTryingYearsNiceNew YorkMaterialsBlueBoxesCombinationDirtyRoyal Author:Redd Foxx
“I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big kind of rock-and-roll road trip comedy that has heart and that has hopefully you feel bad for Russell and you feel bad for Aldeus and also I wanted to surprise people with some of the turns in the movie and I think when I watched it with audiences they certainly...the reactions made me think that we did and so all that I'm just very excited about it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHeartKindMeanMadeBigsWantedTurnsGoalAudienceComedyRocksMaterialsSurpriseExcitedReactionsHopefullyExtrasRock And RollHaving HopeRoad Trip Author:Nicholas Stoller
“When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.” ThinkingFirstsArtIdeasUsedPiecesMaterialsPhotographyCommitmentPhotographerPhotographMediumsErasJust OneRecalls Author:William Wegman
“I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.” PeopleThinkingShowsBitsMaterialsPureJokesTheaterCrowdsExcitedVersionsHanging OutPoliteHecklers Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.” ThinkingFeelingsEmotionalMaterialsPackingDoritos Author:Dana Gould
“We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.” ThinkingKnowsWorldMayLittlesOrderThreeHoursDarknessWindMaterialsColdMassWeightIslandsTraveledFossilsSpectacularCapesEmbryosMore Knowledge Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard
“Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting because the best actors see the material they’re working on through blinders. They can’t see anything but their role. I could never really do that.” ThinkingShouldActorsActingRolesTeacherMaterialsTrainingCriticismBlinders Author:Jason Alexander
“I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're from Buffalo - there isn't really that much to do. When we started we were a cover band and slowly developed our own material.” ThinkingWantedRememberFunMaterialsBandNoiseHanging OutBuffalo Author:John Rzeznik
“Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245 years. In slave narratives there were all types of tales and drama and heroism and pain and love that happened during that time. That's rich material for drama! Everyone complains that there are no new stories left to tell. Not true, there are a whole bunch of them, and they're all American with a capital A.” ThinkingNeedsYearsCountryWholeStoriesPainLeftRichHappenedMaterialsTypeDramaAnd LoveSlaverySlaveComplainingBunchTalesNarrativeHeroismLove And PainDjango Author:Quentin Tarantino
“With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.” ThinkingStyleMaterialsCompromiseAgendas Author:Jonny Lang
“I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.” ThinkingNeedsSelfBlackWhiteDealsRaceComedyStyleMaterialsRacismPacksTopicsVersusRelatableCatalystSeparatingSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating Humor Author:Kevin Hart
“You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.” ThinkingWayTelevisionMaterialsNaiveEdited Author:Dick Cavett
“I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.” IfsThinkingWayStatesTodayTogetherUnitedUnited StatesSeriousMaterialsOughtFindingsProgramNuclearAdministrationReplacedOrganize Author:Richard Perle
“Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.” ThinkingWorldImportantDoneTodayHumanityEnergyGivenNationsAcceptingRichDivineMaterialsCornersOilDevelopingGoodsProvidenceRaw MaterialsScientific KnowledgeDivine Providence Author:Benjamin Creme
“Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.” ThinkingWorldNeedsWellsWould BeSocialMaterialsIllusionOvercomingDestroyedStereotypeSocial LifeMaterial World Author:W. J. T. Mitchell
“I wouldn't want to put myself up for something that I didn't think I could do a good job on. I wouldn't to direct material I didn't feel I could serve, but I don't have anything against doing bigger pictures.” ThinkingWantFeelsJobsMaterialsDirectBiggerGood JobBigger Picture Author:Kurt Voss
“I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.” IfsThinkingWayKindDifferentUseCertainMaterialsProductsDifferent KindsUsageMannerisms Author:Julian Schnabel
“I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone. You want to put yourself in a position that no matter what you're talking about, everyone can relate to it and understand it, because it's an experience that everyone can go through. That's what I pattern my writing material and jokes after. I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingMatterLevelsSecretTalkingComedyFansPositionMaterialsJokesAppreciateUniversalNo Matter WhatPatternsRelateAppealsRealness Author:Kevin Hart
“As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.” ThinkingMindLongTwoUniversePerfectConditionsDivineMaterialsPerfectionParallelsAlignmentParallel Universe Author:Marianne Williamson
“Realism's anxieties are not my anxieties, but I think I've had its tools close at hand all along. It may be that I'm reaching for them more often than I used to. On the other hand, I'm making no promises for the future. The material itself always gets the last word.” ThinkingMayHandsLastsUsedMaterialsPromiseAnxietyToolsReachingRealismLast Words Author:Roy Kesey
“I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.” IfsThinkingFeelsStillsBookUseBigsWantedMaterialsBiggerStructureArchitecture Author:Jami Attenberg
“In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.” ThinkingIdeasFormClassFocusMaterialsHelpfulBrainstorming Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.” ThinkingWritingBookRememberNamesFunEasyProcessWonderfulMaterialsStructureFamiliarFantasticNarrativeCharmPlotEntertainingIngenuityIntricate Author:Marina Warner
“I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.” ThinkingGoneMaterialsEvolutionMusical Author:Bela Fleck
“So a lot of people are like, "What are you thinking? Why are you buying size 10?" Well, I'm 5 feet 9 1/2 inches and a size 4. Even though that's what I wear, between a 4 and a 6, a 10 sometimes hangs better on me. Especially the not-as-good materials.” PeopleThinkingWellsSometimesFeetMaterialsSizeBuyingInches Author:Molly Sims
“I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.” ThinkingUseOur LivesModernMaterials Author:Anne Roiphe
“I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible.” ThinkingWorldLongHardReadingSpeakMaterialsGayTraditionVisibleFascinatingCamps Author:Todd Haynes
“I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.” ThinkingLongRealizingMaterialsLong TimeBallsScoreFewer Author:Amanda Peet
“I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty desperate to get it released. We felt pretty proud of it, and it just escalated from there. We were thinking about playing some live shows, doing the soundtracks live. It was just trying to shine a little light on this 15 years of work we've done.” ThinkingTryingYearsLittlesDoneShowsLightFeltWhiteMaterialsProudShiningBoxesDesperateFinishingSoundtracks Author:Stuart A. Staples
“I think media think it's going to be good for ratings, and, two, because they know they have a lot of material to work with. If Donald Trump were to ever become the nominee, immediately, the hounds of hell would descend on him. They're going to tear him apart, everything he's ever done, from not releasing his taxes, to all of his failed business dealings.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoDoneHellMediaTearsMaterialsTrumpTaxesBe GoodRatingDealingsHounds Author:Marco Rubio
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.” ThinkingGivingLongCharacterActorsWaitingInterestMaterialsTvsAmountSeasonsSeriesBackgroundsDevelopingRight ThingRichness Author:Christina Hendricks
“Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody.” PeopleThinkingGivingDoeEnoughShowsDifficultChanceMaterialsImpressionThese DaysDiverseStanding OutShowing Off Author:Julie Halston
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingStoriesSongLaughingWrittenMaterialsBlameFaultsGod KnowsTanks Author:Jason Graae
“Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam.” ThinkingWaySometimesMightSoundNumbersMaterialsTreatedWowClassical MusicJam Author:John Dieterich
“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” ThinkingWantBookCharacterBigsWonderfulMaterialsSourceCreatingDevilFemaleDressesScreensNovelistsComing OutFemale CharactersBig ScreenPradaFamous BookDevil Wears Prada Author:Jerry Bruckheimer
“In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it.” ThinkingMadeRealStuffTreeMilitaryColorMaterialsComfortableWinterDesertHuntingDucksCamouflageDuck Hunting Author:Si Robertson
“People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution.” PeopleThinkingKindArtDifficultLevelsMaterialsCapacityPerformancesManagePerformersThinkerExecutionMotorHigh LevelGreat ThinkersChipping Away Author:Antonio Damasio
“Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingImportantRealSufferingSocialMaterialsFindingsConsequenceDoctorsPatientIllnessMental IllnessBiologyBetter OffPsychiatryReal ThingsDoctors And Patients Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“Getting your letters or pictures digitized. I don't think it's that important. The more you spend on your materials, you're given the sense that those things are more important due to the total amount spent. You'd probably be better off giving that money to a soup kitchen.” ThinkingGivingImportantGivenMaterialsAmountLettersDuesKitchenSoupBetter OffSoup Kitchens Author:Ian MacKaye
“I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.” ThinkingKnowsDifferentRealitySeemsMightBeautifulFilmLostWaitingOpinionForeverMaterialsRemainsAbsurdShootingDigitalGrainTexture Author:Anton Yelchin
“The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.” ThinkingMindKindDifferentEarthMaterialsNotionMetalsDifferent KindsInteractionMateriality Author:Robert Barry
“It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of weight to it. But it was very smart and very intelligent and had this kind of historical element to it that I was fascinated by. It's not silly. It's not stupid. It's fun, but I think it's smart. I think Akiva [Goldsman] writes really interesting material and there you have it.” ThinkingWritingKindBigsHappensFilmFunStarsInterestingStupidMaterialsElementsSmartWeightIntelligentHistoricalSillyBudgetsFascinatedReally InterestingVery SmartNot Stupid Author:Charlize Theron
“Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.” ThinkingDifferentDarkComedyToo MuchMaterialsDramaFamiliarHuntsSubversiveStreaks Author:Sam Neill
“I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.” ThinkingNeedsShouldGovernmentEconomyMaterialsPermitSpeculationRaw Materials Author:Michael Hudson
“I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation became almost more spiritual than material in nature over the last two or three years and it has deepened a lot as a result of that.” ThinkingYearsMeanTwoLastsSpiritualThreeResultsMeditationMaterialsConnectionsDeeperThree Years Author:Karan Bajaj
“Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.” ThinkingFeelsShouldLooksArtMaterialsPerspectiveScreensCollaborationGreat Art Author:Nia Long
“What does "living your best life" mean to you? Does it mean accumulating wealth and fulfilling all your material wants? Or, does it mean turning away from the material world in order to fully realize the gift of spirit? We often tend to think of these objectives as being mutually exclusive: material fulfillment or spiritual fulfillment, not both together.” ThinkingWorldWantMeanDoeTogetherSpiritualSpiritOrderRealizingWealthMaterialsObjectivesFulfillmentFulfillingExclusiveMaterial WorldLife MeansAccumulating Wealth Author:Rod Stryker