John Hillcoat Quotes

What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.

John Hillcoat

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TechnologyExperienceMeIdeasGames

I love working with Gary Sinise.

John Larroquette

LoveWorkingI LoveGary

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

John Lone

BeautyYouUpNotesShowJust

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

John McEnroe

TimeMistakesFearlessStrongLearn

I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'

Alysia Reiner

WomanFunPossessionsShootingCall

I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.

Roald Dahl

GoodChildrenFunUglyThinkImpact

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Michael Tippett

MusicOutsideInterestMade

My novels are all ideas.

Michel Houellebecq

IdeasNovels

After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it's how we tell long stories.

Luke Macfarlane

WorkGreatI AmNew YorkAmbition

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

MyselfInformationEventsNeedReal

One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.

Peter Capaldi

TogetherTryingYouKindLondon

I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been 'no limits.' I don't try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you're ahead of your splits - are you going to slow down?

Paula Radcliffe

TimeMottoMindLimitsSlowPlan

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Norman Mailer

HeartBeautifulMenWomanWorldYou

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