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Seth Gordon Quotes

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: July 15, 1974

Topics

Character Story Comedy High Approach

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

Life Age Time Money Think Reach

I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that's OK, but whatever you do... Don't stop, and don't quit. Even if it's hard, you can't be lazy.

Life Time Slow You Down Stop

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

Technology Create More Going Agree

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

People Selling Accept Right Just He

Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.

Family Time Myself Stress Colleagues

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I Am King You Everything Serve Come

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Perspective Me Chance Story Play

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

Women Ignorance Men Fight Tolerance

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

Yourself Crazy Comedy You Possible

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Jonathan Winters

Discipline Day Tough Every Day Rebel

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

Best Football Team You Hand Way

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

Work Black Now Movies Renaissance

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