“To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.” HateInterestingStrangerFasterVolumeHate YouVery InterestingCrank Author:Demetri Martin
“You must understand that violence in a movie is only a tool. If it's used badly, it will be horrible. If it's used correctly, it can be very interesting. But, essentially, it's just a tool.” IfsUsedInterestingViolenceToolsHorribleVery Interesting Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you know, when you work in comedy, you depend on audience screenings to tell you about your movie.” KnowsRealDifferencesInterestingAudienceComedyWrittenDependsArticlesFilmmakingVery InterestingScreeningSymposium Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“It's always very interesting to bet who's going to go first and who is going to have the most unbelievable death. It's always fun to play with that and create more expectation. It's an interesting part of horror movie.” FirstsPlayFunInterestingHorrorExpectationsUnbelievableVery Interesting Author:Alexandre Aja
“I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.” IfsFeelingsInterestingKeysHappeningsThings HappenVisibleVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Robert Heinecken
“Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.” WholeInterestingMembersVery InterestingWhole FamilyVoodooGood Omens Author:Terry Pratchett
“The question if this is a work of art or not is not very interesting for us. Probably it is situated in between the established categories. Anyway the audience which is interested in art would be the most open-minded and willing to think about it.” IfsThinkingArtWould BeInterestingAudienceWillingWorks Of ArtCategoriesVery InterestingOpen Minded Author:Bernd Becher
“A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.” CareInterestingPhotographDon't CareI Don't CareVery Interesting Author:Abelardo Morell
“I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.” PeopleDifferentFilmInterestingProudThese DaysVery InterestingEthnicity Author:Freida Pinto
“It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."” WantTryingSaidCountryDesireOpportunityInterestingEffortSupportSafetyIncludingSupremeOther CountriesThey SaidVery Interesting Author:Benjamin Carson
“I think Disney is a very interesting company, and it does have an extremely powerful means for projecting a certain way of thinking.” ThinkingWayMeanDoeCertainInterestingPowerfulCompanyVery InterestingWay Of Thinking Author:Seymour Papert
“When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.” PersonsCertainVoiceInterestingPiecesPossibilityVery InterestingPenetrateInner VoiceResonance Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen
“If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.” IfsPersonsInterestingLikesVery Interesting Author:Bette Davis
“What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.” PeopleUniverseInterestingNumbersSubjectsMastersQuietBillionsTyrannyManagersFundMutualVery InterestingMutual Fund Author:Ron Chernow
“In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.” FirstsKindDifferentSeemsYoungNaturalSpaceInterestingRoomsWeekTinyEnormousDifferent KindsVery InterestingFunny Things Author:Paul Auster
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.” InterestingGrowing UpIssuesGrowingSouthExtraordinarySouth AfricaMulticulturalismVery Interesting Author:Roselee Goldberg
“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
“Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.” PeopleThinkingInterestingCasesStudyOriginalsJapanCopiesVery InterestingInventor Author:Steve Jobs
“Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.” WantBookWholeTurnsFoundInterestingKnowingWork OutPlotChaptersNot KnowingSectionsScratchesVery InterestingWrong Turn Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.” TogetherUsedOrderDifficultSidesMemoriesInterestingSceneWorking TogetherRelevantCleaningVery InterestingVividRewritingCleaning UpOddities Author:Mary J. Miller
“I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about.” ThinkingWritingSongInterestingTalkingTopicsEngagingVery Interesting Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".” WritingTwoInterestingHavensEnglandVery InterestingLennonInteresting Times Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Very interesting show. It's "Hotel" with the E missing. Hot L Baltimore. It was about a rundown hotel which had become kind of a residential not quite welfare but almost welfare hotel with a very bizarre collection of people.The desk clerk was played by Jamie Cromwell. That was his first big thing. Conchata Ferrell played April, the main of the two prostitutes, and my character didn't exist in the [stage] show.” PeopleFirstsKindTwoCharacterShowsBigsInterestingStageMissingHotWelfareCollectionsHotelDesksBizarreBig ThingsVery InterestingAprilClerksBaltimoreJamieCromwell Author:Richard Masur
“I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.” PeopleWellsMayStillsEnoughCharacterStoriesTurnsInterestingProjectsFortunePassionatePursueThemeVery InterestingUniversality Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.” YearsMadeSeemsWantedInterestInterestingCasesYears AgoPassionateBarsFilmmakerCompellingVery InterestingAmenNicole Author:Ethan Hawke
“I could feel the real interaction between directing and acting, when an actor or an actress really suggests very interesting things.” FeelsRealActorsInterestingActingActressesInteractionVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Alejandro Amenabar
“I really did Regression to work with Alejandro [Amenabar]. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.” LastsFoundInterestingPeriodsScaryVery InterestingRegression Author:Ethan Hawke
“Very interestingly in a movement that I call now the hijab lobby, sadly promulgated by women that some of us refer to as Muslim mean girls and their friends, are trying to put out this meme that we are denying women their choice.” TryingMeanChoicesGirlMovementVery InterestingMean GirlsMemesHijab Author:Asra Nomani
“I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.” IfsWantFeelsHumansLooksEndsMomentsStoriesBigsHuman BeingsInterestingPositionCivilizationLuckyStandingWitnessVery Interesting Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I [say], "Do you think it would be better if I was nervous?" And he says, "No, it's just I can't understand it - how you would be first time on a set, you're acting, when he flubs his line you make up a new line. It's very interesting." It's not that I think I'm great; that's what I knew I wanted to do.” IfsThinkingFirstsI CanWould BeWantedLinesInterestingActingCoupleFirst TimeNervousVery InterestingRehearsalSydney Author:Geena Davis
“It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.” ThinkingWayInterestingPiecesWifeMusicianMy WifeCommentVery InterestingListening To Music Author:Paul Lansky
“I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the way for me, if you know what I mean. I have no idea where I got the idea from to do what I do. But I think they - Ian and Alistair, my brothers kind of opened a lot of doors for me onto the world - you know, made it seem to be a very, very interesting place.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayKindMeanMadeIdeasSeemsInterestingDoorsBrotherMade ItBrokeNo IdeaMy BrotherVery InterestingInteresting Places Author:Maggie Smith
“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.” MenEndsBigsRememberArtistInterestingSittingThirdsTablesStudiosDinnerConvincedVery InterestingGalleryDressed UpWaiterCognac Author:Erro
“While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.” ThreeInterestingPlayerTrackVery InterestingIndulgenceBassBass Players Author:Bryan Ferry
“It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.” WritingKindLittlesDifferentWarBigsFunStarsInterestingGroupsTypeExerciseIncrediblesSettingSettingsVery Interesting Author:Mark Millar
“I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around.” IfsThinkingMomentsMightInterestingDiversitySomething NewCostumesVery InterestingFellowshipCivics Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.” InterestingPatientRhythmTeenagerVery InterestingCircadian Rhythm Author:Shelby Harris
“It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.” ThinkingMindMadeEarthTermInterestingConsciousnessCreaturesProfoundSpeciesDistinctionUnlikelyVery Interesting Author:Antonio Damasio
“Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.” PeoplePoliticalPurposeInterestingNarrativeFixedBiographiesVery InterestingPloy Author:Antonio Damasio
“I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.” PeopleThinkingWritingFeelingsSportsHoursInterestingGroupsTeamWindIntensePeculiarQuartersVery InterestingPlaying SportsIntense Feelings Author:Chad Harbach
“I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.” ThinkingParentInterestingCasesMarriedMy SisterGrandchildrenVery InterestingDynamics Author:Aasif Mandvi
“When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.” FirstsKindPersonsWholeBigsSongActorsInterestingSceneMagnificentAuditionsVery InterestingBlondeFirst Person Author:Quentin Tarantino
“The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a lot of art that puts that in bold letters. It's psychologically very interesting and acute, I think. That's not the central reading, I think, of the New Testament.” ThinkingArtFormReadingLossInterestingSourceHorrorLettersEnginesHeroismTestamentVery InterestingNew Testament Author:Cass Sunstein
“The Fugazi Live Series site, when we realized the Internet, the way it works - the speeds and its development - made it possible to have one source of infinite copies, was incredible for us. Using tapes or CD's to make copies would have been so unwieldy. We have shows that have zero downloads, which makes me sad, but they're all freely available at any time. The most downloaded show was the one with the best audio quality, but I didn't think it was a very interesting show.” ThinkingWayHas BeensMadeShowsInterestingQualitySourceDevelopmentInternetInfiniteSeriesIncrediblesAvailableSpeedMade ItCopiesZeroTapeSiteVery InterestingCdsDownloadsAudio Author:Ian MacKaye
“It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.” WayEyeJobsArtistInterestingLevelsEgoExpectationsPressureAimGet UpComedianReachingVery InterestingBeing An ArtistPrecipice Author:Chris Gethard
“Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.” ImportantInterestingStyleDevelopingVery Interesting Author:Robert Barry
“David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he'd done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.” PeopleKindMadeDoneWholeCharacterWantedCoursesStuffBitsInterestingGoneStrangeIntegrityBunchAdmireTunesVery InterestingIrritatingInteresting CharactersCatchyWeird StuffCunninghams Author:David Toop
“I've known Mark Hunt for a long time, and I've known Brock [Lesnar] for a while. I think that it's a very interesting match-up. I think it's good on the UFC for making that match-up.” ThinkingLongInterestingKnownLong TimeMarkHuntsVery InterestingUfc Author:Bill Goldberg
“The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.” FirstsInterestingNovelGenerationsVery InterestingMy Generation Author:Karan Bajaj