“I think, retrospectivety helps to hone your ideas for future projects. I like it.” ThinkingIdeasHelpingProjects Author:Seamus McGarvey
“I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.” ThinkingProjectsEngagedEntertaining Author:Frank Spotnitz
“I think it's very important to recognize talent in all facets of filmmaking. Making a movie is such a lengthy and intense experience, so it's wonderful to honour actors, directors, producers and all crew members who put so much hard work and passion into a project.” ThinkingImportantHardPassionActorsWonderfulTalentHard WorkDirectorsMembersProjectsIntenseProducersHonourFilmmakingCrewFacetsLengthy Author:Eva Green
“If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantLooksIdeasStuffProjectsCameras Author:Evan Glodell
“You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.” ThinkingStillsI CanActorsChallengesRolesProjects Author:Stellan Skarsgard
“Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksBodyFansHugeInvolvedProjectsExpectationsExcited Author:Steven Yeun
“When The Walking Dead officially got greenlit, Frank Darabont called me up and said, "My passion project just got off the ground. There's a role I think you're perfect for. Would you consider the role of Andrea?" And I was like, "Wow, I'd love to take a look at it." So, I read the pilot script and was knocked out.” ThinkingLooksSaidPassionPerfectRolesWalkingProjectsScriptsWowPilotsFrankMy PassionAndreaWalking Dead Author:Laurie Holden
“You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindDoeRealProjectsRedSweetnessHerringRed Herrings Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.” ThinkingLooksMeanGovernmentProjects Author:Todd Park
“It's an intelligence. It's not - you know, that's the other mistake we make, is we tend to project how we think of ourselves onto divinity. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence.” ThinkingKnowsSpaceMistakeFieldsProjectsEternalInfiniteDivinityTime And Space Author:Deepak Chopra
“Overcomers have a 'finishing' anointing. They don't merely start things. They keep on moving forward until they complete the task. Many people love to start new things. They like to be creative. They enjoy thinking of new projects and dreaming about new adventures. Often, these people actually start some of the new things they are planning for the future. The problem is that they seldom finish what they start.” PeopleThinkingProblemDreamMovingEnjoyCreativeAdventureProjectsTasksPlanningMoving ForwardNew ThingsBe CreativeKeep MovingFinishingFuture PlansAnointingNew ProjectsNew Adventure Author:Barbara Wentroble
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.” ThinkingFeelsTryingSometimesFeelingsJobsDesireResultsWrittenInspirePoetProjectsPagesDrawsCome UpScreensFilmmakerViewersIntrigueIneffableGood Authors Author:Guy Maddin
“You also convert real memories, whatever that means, into film versions of those memories. Because by the time you've finished the project you can't remember the real memories anymore, you just remember the film versions of them. And then if the film failed you have distaste for them. So I don't think about that stuff anymore.” IfsThinkingMeanRealRememberFilmStuffMemoriesProjectsFinishedVersionsDistaste Author:Guy Maddin
“The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.” ThinkingHomeWould BeFocusHugeDevelopmentProjectsFoundationPassionateEducationalInitiativeAgricultureTanksSanctuaryReally AmazingAmazing PlacesHome BaseSustainable Agriculture Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are in control of their own projects, but it's not really my style. I've always had that partnership.” ThinkingArtistStyleProjectsCollaborationPartnership Author:Tamaryn
“I think we should allow for schools within schools, where 100 out of 500 kids may be organized by the way they work and what they do, and what they do often is more progressive. I would like to see a lot of kids of different ages, maybe even some adults, work together on a project.” ThinkingWayShouldMayDifferentKidsAgeSchoolTogetherProjectsAdultsOrganizedWorking TogetherProgressiveOften IsDifferent Ages Author:Seymour Papert
“A lot of people think PMI is the genome project 2.0. No. This is about all the influences on disease - genetics is in there, but the environment is in there as well, health choices, behaviors, all the factors that are important, otherwise we're not doing what we promised we would do - which is in a holistic way look at how people stay healthy or how do they fall ill.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsLooksImportantChoicesFallEnvironmentInfluenceHealthyDiseaseBehaviorProjectsIllFactorsGeneticsHolisticGenomeGenome Project Author:Francis Collins
“I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.” ThinkingSometimesWantedLastsStepsProjectsSmartAffection Author:Jody Watley
“I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'” ThinkingWantYearsI CanDoneWaitingQualityWifeMonthsSixProjectsMeetingsSevenMy WifePoolLoadSix MonthsSeven YearsMonths Of The Year Author:Eddie Marsan
“I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles.” ThinkingWantShouldTryingLooksI CanRealJobsActorsCan DoCareersRolesDangerProjectsStatementsTeethGood Job Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.” ThinkingGivingTryingWellsUseBigsNextProjectsI've LearnedMy TimeHolidayExhaustedTime To ThinkChunks Author:Wayne McGregor
“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.” ThinkingWayWantGivingTryingUsedStuffStyleProjectsMethodTrackHip HopRapStorytellingTraditionalHipsHopsVocal Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingDifferentWantedOpportunityInterestWillingProjectsApproachAccidentsDifferent WaysMy TimeBrainwashed Author:Kanye West
“Also, when we did "Smallville," we didn't have an opportunity to interact with people who watched the show. And see what they had to say and listen to criticism and listen to praise at the same time. So a lot of this is a new experience and it's very interesting and rewarding for us. I think we get honest feedback. You get hate. You get a lot of love as well. And I'm actually very curious what people think of the show. For us, it's been a passion project of ours, and an incredibly challenging show to make.” PeopleThinkingWellsShowsHatePassionOpportunityChallengesInterestingHonestProjectsCriticismPraiseCuriousHate YouFeedbackVery InterestingNew ExperiencesHonest Feedback Author:Miles Millar
“I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.” PeopleThinkingCountryHelpingMy OwnGroupsMetsProjectsSouthIslandsSailingFascinationPacificTahiti Author:Robert Plant
“The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.” ThinkingFeelsKindImportantFilmHugeComfortableProjectsIndependentIndependent FilmBlockbuster Author:Mia Wasikowska
“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.” ThinkingWayWritingSelfProblemFoundProcessDifficultGriefHappenedBrotherMomHealthyProjectsDiedMy MomMemoirMy BrotherTeenageRapidsEraseLoathingSelf LoathingReckoningBrother DiedMy Brother Died Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are sort of festering and things are disgusting in my house and I have to get back to work, whatever project I keep thinking about is the one I end up working on. Sort of a very simple process of elimination.” ThinkingYearsBookIdeasEndsHouseProcessSimpleProjectsFinishedGet BackDisgustingEliminationBack To WorkFestering Author:Colson Whitehead
“I think there's no question that historians create; they would tell you that, I think. If I'm trying to imagine an imperial Roman position, it's much easier to imagine the poor schlub who's not even sure why he's doing what he's doing than it is to imagine Caesar. At least for me. And I'm intrigued, too, by the position of the poor schlub who *still* finds himself supporting the imperial project.” IfsThinkingTryingStillsPoorImaginePositionEasierProjectsHistorianIntrigued Author:Jim Shepard
“I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young director who wanted to adopt Project X. Errol was a hoot. I loved talking with him. We were a good match, too, because we both kept joking that we'd found the only other person on earth more ambivalent than we were about the project.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsWantedEarthYoungFoundFictionTalkingWrittenDirectorsProjectsScreenplaysAmbivalentHootMorris Author:Jim Shepard
“The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.” ThinkingLongRealProcessAnxietyProjectsDelightDrawingStringsThrillAnimation Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantChildrenAbleNextGivenChanceWatchesPossibilityThis WorldProjectsAdultsGratefulShiningAnimatedBoundlessSparklingAnimated Movies Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.” ThinkingWantSaidStuffDifferencesGoneReaderProjectsTendencies Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.” ThinkingSaidI CanStoriesRememberNextWaitingProjectsGoldVisitingWaiting For You Author:Mary J. Miller
“Look out for each other. I think the more we support each other as a community, the more successful we will be. I'm a part of Film Fatales, a collective of women directors who meet to share advice and provide support for each other's projects. I think the more we can build an old girls' network to rival the old boys' network, the better off we will be.” ThinkingLooksFilmGirlCommunityBoysSupportSuccessfulShareAdviceDirectorsProjectsCollectivesBetter OffRivals Author:Sian Heder
“I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.” PeopleThinkingAbleProjectsGood People Author:Peter Jacobson
“You do hear from people that the things that you have done or projects you have worked on have made an impact on people's lives. I think it is important to take that seriously and to recognise that you are being followed and watched by some degree in what you do and you should use that. It's a real blessing to be able to make an impact on people's lives and to use that for the bettering of them.” PeopleThinkingShouldMadeImportantRealDoneUseAbleBlessingDegreesProjectsImpactRecognise Author:Bridgit Mendler
“Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.” ThinkingFeelingsKnowingProjectsConstantDissatisfactionTime To Leave Author:Leni Zumas
“I think there's a part of us that would like to use the fact that we're married, but you don't want the idea that we're married to overshadow the project itself.We're just looking for something that's so specific and good that it becomes a part of the story of why we did it rather than when we go to do press it's, 'Oh, my God, you're married and that's the only thing we want to talk about.' If we can merge both, that could be great.” IfsThinkingWantIdeasFactsStoriesUseProjectsMarriedPresses Author:John Krasinski
“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryDoneWholeSocialProjectsConscienceDecidedCreditActiveImpressionWhole WorldCracksSlumsEleanorDescendingAnnouncingDisadvantagedOzarks Author:William A. Rusher
“I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongStatesCertainNationsUnitedNeededProjectsAccountsManageAwfulAround The WorldDepartmentInitiativeUnited NationsFranklinApprovedPrestigeSlums Author:William A. Rusher
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings
“I have to say that I approach every project with the same energy. I also think that, since I started producing, I see the process from a different perspective, which affects the way I jump on board immediately.” ThinkingWayDifferentEnergyProcessPerspectiveProjectsApproachBoardsDifferent Perspective Author:Olivia Wilde
“There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.” ThinkingKindBookEndsWantedFoundParticularSeriousBecomingProjectsJokesDeeperThemeDistraction Author:Moshe Kasher
“Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsHumansFactsLastsTurnsCoursesDifficultFictionProgressTaughtProjectsScientistClaimsRelationScience FictionHuman LifePaceUnderestimateScopeWay Of ThinkingTaught UsSingularityScientific Progress Author:George Pattison
“I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's next?" I'm at this age where I'm trying to write my own script, and they sent this over and I decided to put myself on tape.” ThinkingWritingTryingHomeAgeNextLeftWaitingMy OwnProjectsDecidedSeasonsScriptsParenthoodTape Author:Ray Romano
“I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.” ThinkingIdeasCharacterHandsMovingValuesOpportunityInvolvedDrugProjectsNo IdeaGet InvolvedIrresistible Author:Donald Sutherland
“What's cool is when people send me messages or tag me in their photos, which definitely happens more after a project comes out. The best part, I think, is that the DMs and tags are always from young girls, and reaching them is the most important thing for me.” PeopleThinkingImportantHappensYoungGirlProjectsMessagesImportant ThingsReachingTag Author:Petra Collins
“I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.” PeopleThinkingPersonsHas BeensDoneAbleFilmCareersNiceFansProjectsPursueFortunate Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor