“My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor.” WantLooksSoulGuyActorsCareersProjectsMy FavoriteLook UpThat Guy Author:Grant Gustin
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.” FirstsTwoBookIdeasFilmGuySimpleHalfMillionsNovelComedyPlansWrittenProjectsStonesFollowingPlanesConcertsCrashRollingDocumentariesStarksRolling StonesGreat BookPseudoTwo GuysJaggerPlane CrashesSimple Plan Author:Ben Stiller
“Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.” WellsGuyCompanySkyProjectsBlueLike MeBlue Sky Author:Gordon Bell
“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.” PeopleTryingWellsRealCharacterHandsFilmGuyActorsKnownMillionsEffectsHugeCostProjectsDollarsDrivenMaking MoneyBudgetsWell Known Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.” WantWritingLongAbleGuyNextOne ThingProjectsLong TimeScriptsThese DaysImpatientFelicityAliases Author:J. J. Abrams
“I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.” WellsSchoolGuyTeamProjectsMajorsVery GoodPresentationBusiness SchoolGood School Author:Kevin Plank
“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.” PeopleKindTwoGuyCreativeMiddleTypeTasteBandProjectsDrivingShipsSoloCreative PeopleAlong For The Ride Author:Patrick Stump
“'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.” GuyStuffProjectsAdultsSouthVariousParksSwimCartoonUnbelievableFamily GuyCartoon Network Author:Matt Groening
“I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.” KnowsStillsDoneStoriesGuyDirectorsProjectsInstinctGood Story Author:Ray Liotta
“It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.” PersonsPlayGuyActingPiecesBehaviorProjectsHarderBarsBelovedCakeRottenBeloved Person Author:Bill Murray
“When I used to go on the Wikipedia page, and I haven't gone on the page in a while, there used to be some guy who was doing my page and he would say that he was my cousin and I was going to be doing projects with him. I don't know who this person is and I don't have a cousin by this name and this person keeps saying that they're doing projects with me. It's so weird.” KnowsPersonsUsedGuyNamesGoneHavensGoes OnProjectsPagesUsed To BeCousinWikipediaMy Cousin Author:Demetri Martin
“Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit out of a hat. Do something! What tricks does this guy have? "I'm in a box...and I ain't gonna eat.". "I'm in a box... and I ain't gonna eat!!" That ain't no trick! That's called living in the projects!” DoeHumorFunnyGuyFallHalfSawsProjectsBoxesEntertainmentTricksDesperateHatsThis GuyMagicianRabbits Author:Chris Rock
“The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.” WorldWayTryingRealGuyStuffProjectsPreservesCinemaDigitalRaysBetter Ways Author:William Friedkin
“I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.” IfsNeedsHelpingHomeTogetherGuySongMy OwnProjectsStudiosDevelopingHelp MeNutsCounterparts Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.” WantTryingLittlesI CanFilmGuyBitsProcessMy OwnBrainRolesOne DayDirectorsProjectsLittle BitPicksDirectAdmireCriteriaGood Directors Author:Dave Franco
“My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.” DoeGuyProjectsPerceptionHomework Author:Nolan Bushnell
“To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.” PeopleTryingBigsGuyIndustryProjectsElusive Author:Peter Jackson
“I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.” IfsFirstsKindBookIdeasDifferentGuyProjectsAbandonCompellingNew IdeasDifferent Books Author:Neal Stephenson
“The only way to describe my involvement in Planes is that its an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I cant imagine anything getting better than that!” WayDreamGuyFunImagineProjectsAbsolutesPlanesGet BetterVillainDreams Come TrueBad GuysCantInvolvement Author:Roger Craig Smith
“Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.” TryingMeanI CanHardGuyCoursesSidesCan DoRoomsWeekEffectsDangerProjectsNegativeCombatLiving RoomSide Effects Author:Jim Parsons
“There's usually a sense of humor about all of it. It is what it is. I had two characters that were equally detestable, in very different ways, that hit the airwaves, at the same time. It was a very interesting year in my career, in that way. But I have no fear, on that note. I have a new project for HBO, where I'm going to play the good guy. That's going to be fun and exciting, and shift the paradigm a bit.” WayYearsTwoDifferentPlayCharacterGuyFunBitsInterestingCareersProjectsExcitingNotesDifferent WaysSense Of HumorNo FearVery InterestingParadigmGood GuyHave No FearIt Is What It IsHboNew Projects Author:Pablo Schreiber
“I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.” PeopleGuyTermDecisionCareersInspireBecomingProjectsNosesRight Decision Author:Gregory Nicotero
“More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.” FirstsMadeTwoPlayFilmGuyFunMy OwnKnownComedyProjectsSci FiThrillers Author:Jim Piddock
“I love the idea of doing totally different types of guys for different projects. I love that I get to do this. It's so fun.” IdeasDifferentGuyFunTypeProjectsType Of Guy Author:Ben Schwartz
“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.” MenHas BeensBookHardBigsMightYoungGuyBlackWhiteFiguresDirectorsProjectsStandardsPraiseSeriesFakeLos AngelesSexismYoung WomenMight Have BeenWireAdvancementRiceGhettoDouble StandardWhite GuysDowning Author:Ishmael Reed
“Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.” DifferentTogetherGuyActorsLinesRaceTvsDevelopmentProjectsSeriesWork OutCyclesFinish LineTv Series Author:Russell Peters
“I just love the fact that all my pals are basically looked after. You know, we have these amazing deals, these guys split 50 percent. We have ownership 50 percent, all the bonuses 50 percent, and everybody's going to be alright. So going forward into the future, every one of these Millarworld projects, as we call them, 50 percent partners on everything. So it's just a really happy environment to be working in.” KnowsFactsGuyDealsEnvironmentProjectsPercentPartnersSplitsOwnershipAlrightReally HappyBonusPals Author:Mark Millar
“I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.” FirstsLongMotivationGuyStuffFocusInvolvedProjectsStressListsThings To DoSmall Stuff Author:Michael Lomenda
“We were able to shoot in a lot of the locations where the mission actually happened and these guys existed, so that was kind of very affecting. We had a Czech crew and a lot of Czech actors. There's a great deal of authenticity to the project [Anthropoid], and Sean [Ellis] was very anxious that that was the case from the beginning.” KindAbleGuyActorsDealsCasesHappenedProjectsMissionsAuthenticityAnxiousLocationCrewSeanCzech Author:Cillian Murphy
“My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.” HumansGuyActorsHuman BeingsDecisionCuttingProjectsTreatsWho I AmTraffic Author:Neal McDonough
“I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.” WritingYearsGuyMonthsSixProjectsPreparingPastorSix MonthsJuneOther GuysJanuary Author:Max Lucado
“The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.” PeopleKnowsRunningGuyImaginationAudienceMinutesHorrorProjectsStandingPaintCornersWoodsVersionsWitchOne MinuteBlairPersonalized Author:Jordan Peele
“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.” YearsMeanStillsCountryAmericaBeautifulGuyHouseWatchesWrittenProjectsYears AgoConstitutionNew ThingsMadrid Author:Antonio Banderas