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Astro Teller Quotes

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: May 29, 1970

Topics

Truth Better Something Here Percent

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Melissa McCarthy

Women Great Strong Think Down Just

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.

Want Possible Audience Sing

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Thinking Young Living Icon Just Pop

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

Feel Anything Owe Anyone

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Lorraine Toussaint

Love Character Me Know Being There

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Time Start Impossible Chance Slow

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

Character Best Value Me You Movies

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

Me Now Difficult Right Director

When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

Wynton Marsalis

Brother People Me Wrong Go See

Men's vows are women's traitors!

William Shakespeare

Women Men Traitors Vows

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Writing Book Think Important Shape

Even a mother - Jewish or not - can't worry about everything. So it is important that we limit our worries to real as opposed to imaginary risks.

Mother Risks Worry Important Limit

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